Cannock Chase Council and their leisure provider partner, Inspiring healthy lifestyles (IHL), have reached an agreement to continue their longstanding arrangement to manage leisure facilities and provide key wellbeing services across the District.

A programme addressing extremism and radicalisation is being delivered to students attending South Staffordshire College this month as part of Cannock Chase Council’s safeguarding work around the Prevent agenda.

In 2020, the Council’s Community Safety Team commissioned Loudmouth Education & Training to create and deliver a brand new theatre in education programme on extremism to local primary and secondary schools.

Council Leader signs pledge to support local voluntary organisation following a grant approved by Council’s Cabinet.

Cannock Chase Council Leader Councillor George Adamson and Garry Jones the Chief Executive at Support Staffordshire have signed the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector Pledge for Local Authorities.

In November 2020, the Council’s Cabinet approved to give Support Staffordshire a grant for £8,350 for a 12 month period to deliver an additional 5 hours per week to support the voluntary sector within the District.

Valentine’s Day should be about celebrating the love and affection between a couple. This will not be the case for some men and women living in Cannock Chase District this Valentine’s Day.

For some men and women, this Valentine’s will just be like any other day.

Cannock Chase Council has joined forces with Staffordshire Police and New Era Domestic Abuse Service for Staffordshire to raise awareness of domestic abuse.  

A new campaign addressing county lines and wider criminal exploitation is launching virtually in schools across the District this month as part of Cannock Chase Council’s safeguarding work.

The Council’s Community Safety Team has commissioned Loudmouth Education & Training to deliver a virtual lesson to schools on county lines, knife crime and criminal exploitation.

Cannock Chase Council’s Cabinet has today (28 January) put forward its recommendations for the Council’s general fund budget covering the next three financial years to 2023-24.

In today’s Cabinet report the focus was on the impact of the pandemic on the Council and its residents and the need to maintain services for residents.

The impact of Covid-19 on the Council during the next financial year, for 2021-22, is estimated to be £1.4million.  

Cannock Chase Council has announced phase 2 of its social housing investment programme with a further £12 million of resources being allocated to this new phase.

Our crews are out as normal today, although they started slightly later than usual.

They will be catching up with yesterday's missed dry recycling and garden waste collections, as well as today's collections.

Collections may be a little later than usual, please leave your bins out until they are emptied. 

Cannock Chase Council has licensed the first electric taxi in Cannock Chase.

Leigh Andrews, who lives in Cannock and works with AJ’s Taxis in Rugeley is the first person to license an electric vehicle for use as a taxi in the District.  Mr Andrews has set up a dedicated Facebook page about the vehicle so that customers can book the vehicle in advance, https://www.facebook.com/Electric-taxi-104795118271835