Cannock Chase Council is supporting a Public Health England campaign to help improve breastfeeding rates in the District.

The programme aims to help parents develop healthy behaviours and features a new interactive Breast Feeding Friend (BFF) Chat Bot.

The BFF is accessed through Facebook messenger and provides support for mothers at any time of the day or night to help make breastfeeding a better experience.

A recent Which? report has placed Cannock Chase in the top 10% of Districts in the UK for food hygiene performance.

Cannock Chase was ranked 30th out of 386 local authorities for food hygiene performance and is also the top performing District in Staffordshire and West Midlands.

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People living in Cannock Chase District will have the opportunity to put their questions to the experts and find out a little more about dementia next week as Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Community Roadshow rolls into town. The visit has been organised by Cannock Chase’s Dementia Action Alliance.

Cannock Chase Council thanks residents in the District for reducing contamination in the blue bin following a successful contamination campaign. 

The contamination campaign launched in Cannock Chase in August 2016 and was aimed at informing residents as well as reducing contamination in the blue bin.

The campaign focused on the key items which were often found to contaminate the blue bin.

Users of Hednesford skate park have been treated to a teen shelter and lighting in the park thanks to funding received from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s People Power Fund.

The Friends of Hednesford Park were successful in securing £3K of funding in 2014.  The money has provided much needed lighting to the skate park and along tree avenue and a shelter for the skate park, all of which was installed last month.

Local Councils have worked together to secure funding for a refuge for victims of domestic abuse in Staffordshire.

Cannock Chase Council worked in partnership with South Staffordshire District Council and lead authority Stafford Borough Council in a bid to secure nearly £146,000 of Government money to help support ‘ForWard House’ the state of the art refuge which was opened in Stafford last year. 

The funding represents a share of a £20 million nationwide pot from the Department of Communities and Local Government to support victims of domestic abuse. 

People living in Cannock Chase District will be able to view a new woodland sculpture as part of a local dementia friendly initiative in Hednesford Park.

The new sculpture is being created by Robot Cossey, an artist from Wolverhampton who is well known for his timber sculptural works and the artist who created the recent woodland sculptures in the park.

The design includes a collection of forget me not flowers with a ladybird and is situated at the park entrance off Victoria Road.

The Council has launched an official website for the Chase Community Partnership which can be used by both local residents and partner agencies.

Cannock Chase Council opened its Chamber to the School Council from Chancel Primary School in Rugeley this month.

Pupils aged between 8 and 11 were welcomed by the Council’s Chairman, Councillor Zaphne Stretton and learnt about the work the Council does and its political structure. They took part in an environmental awareness session delivered by the Council’s Environmental Protection team and learnt about the importance of disposing of litter properly.