With the new restrictions being introduced for Merseyside, and across the country, Sefton’s Director of Public Health Margaret Jones was asked a range of questions including: What are the new restrictions and how do they affect people in Sefton? How will they affect people’s childcare arrangements? What should I do if my child get sent home from school? Is testing still important and when should … Continue reading Advice on Merseyside COVID restrictions from Sefton’s Director of Public Health

Access Sefton provides NHS talking therapies services to people experiencing a wide range of common mild-to-moderate mental health conditions. Their services are free to people who live in Sefton. Services are currently provided via telephone or online to ensure safe access. As many as one in four of us will experience some kind of condition related to our mental wellbeing at any one time. As … Continue reading Is your mental health ok?

Listening Ear is a telephone support service from Sefton Carers Centre and run by trained volunteers to provide a social befriending service to unpaid carers. Many of the volunteers have been carers themselves and understand the impact caring can have on people’s physical and mental health. Volunteers contact carers regularly to provide emotional support and listen impartially without judgement, as well as providing information on … Continue reading Sefton carers, how are you feeling?

Cllr John Joseph Kelly, Sefton Council’s Cabinet Member for Children, Schools and Safeguarding, has praised the borough’s teachers, school staff, parents and carers, and pupils themselves for all that they are doing to ensure children can safely attend school. Cllr Kelly said: “As with the rest of the region, it is a rapidly changing picture with as many as one third of schools in Sefton having … Continue reading Borough’s teachers, schools staff, parents and carers and pupils praised