North Lanarkshire Council to offer nearly 200 newly-qualified teachers contracts next term

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Residents and visitors to Hamilton have made fresh calls this week for South Lanarkshire Council to step up their grass-cutting.The local authority took the decision back in March to suspend a number of maintenance services due to the coronavirus outbreak, however, they were slowly re-introduced in May.

local authority have highlighted a £21.3m coronavirus black hole in the first half of 2020.

The pandemic is set to cost North Ayrshire Council more than £23 million by March.A total of 220 staff at KA Leisure have been furloughed with lost income from closed swimming pools and other hubs set to reach £2.8 million.Finance bosses have calculated council spend and loss of income during the crisis as well as recovery for this financial year.Cabinet councillors were presented with the figures at a meeting last week.Council leader Labour’s Joe Cullinane described the financial impact on

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Two yobs who caused damage worth £35,000 when they trashed North Lanarkshire Council’s HQ have been freed.Aaron McGurk and Connor McLaughlan wrecked computer equipment and television screens, ripped tiles from ceilings and poured food and drink over floors and walls.Their three-hour rampage at the Civic Centre happened directly across the road from the area’s main police station in Windmillhill Street, Motherwell.The

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserEducation officials “have ambitions to significantly raise attainment through improving curricular arrangements”, with the report adding: “Raising attainment, success in participating in programmes of personal achievement and leaving school to a positive destination are important barometers of success.“In the current climate, curricular delivery is subject to the national emergency [of] Covid-19; in this context, the curriculum

Reformer : “The biggest number of complaints I am getting is about the state that residential areas are in with overgrown grass. “The council have the man power and the equipment – they just aren’t willing to use it.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.North Lanarkshire recorded its lowest level of weekly deaths in figures released last week at three – one of which occurred in the region’s care homes.A revision in the data provided by the National Records of Scotland shows that three deaths were recorded in North Lanarkshire for the previous week as well and not four as previously reported.As a result, there have been 263 deaths where coronavirus was listed on the

Coronavirus could cost South Lanarkshire Council more than £20 million in just six months.The full cost of the crisis is still unknown, but reports due to go before the executive committee yesterday (June 24) highlighted a £21.3m coronavirus black hole in the first half of 2020.Officers arrived at that figure after considering all the costs of the council’s response to the pandemic and the support received from government so far.Even before the costs of the pandemic are considered, the council

West Lothian Civic Centre normally sees dozens of people married by the council’s registrar at civil ceremonies in the building.That was until the lockdown in March which prompted a delay to many couples’ big days.From a few thousand people a day using the building it has been down to a handful since then.And for a "significant number" the lockdown has meant a delay to their big day.

A total of 195 newly-qualified teachers who have just completed their post-training probationary year in North Lanarkshire schools are to be offered contracts from August.The authority had seen its number of vacancies for permanent posts reduce for the forthcoming academic year – due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on its “normal approach to workforce planning”, while a number of staff deferred their planned retirals to continue supporting pupils during nearly four months of home

A LEADING trade union has warned North Lanarkshire Council that the local authority’s furlough scheme “must not be a waiting room for redundancy”.Councils across Scotland, including North Lanarkshire, announced last week that they have applied to the UK Government’s job retention scheme to fund their staff.Johanna Baxter, Unison Scotland head of local government, said: “The fact that Scottish councils are having to apply for funding from the Westminster furlough scheme is a damning indictment of

Despite the lockdown, parents across Lanarkshire have continued to celebrate new additions to the families.NHS Lanarkshire has revealed that since March 23, when lockdown began, 555 newborns have been welcomed into the world by parents across the region at University Hospital Wishaw.North Lanarkshire parents welcomed 280 babies while 275 were born to South Lanarkshire parents.A raft of changes to the birthing process have had to be made to protect everyone involved as much as possible from

North Lanarkshire recorded its lowest level of weekly deaths from coronavirus for the second week in succession.The total number of deaths for the past seven days was four.This is down from the previous week’s total of five.None of the deaths occurred in the region’s care homes.In total, there have been 261 deaths where coronavirus was listed on the death certificate in North Lanarkshire.Of those, 91 were in care homes, 147 in hospital and 23 were in other settings including at home.In

THE wages of more than 50,000 workers in North Lanarkshire have been supported by the UK Government during Covid-19.Businesses in Lanarkshire as a whole have furloughed 81,000 jobs since the coronavirus job retention scheme (CJRS) was launched in March.The self-employment income support scheme (SEISS), rolled out last month, has financially assisted 17,400 self-employed Lanarkshire residents – and paid grants worth £50.4 million in the region.A total of 41,800 people have been furloughed and

Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser how they had only found out about the policy change affecting private land “by chance” after enquiring why grassy areas which had been maintained by the council for decades had been left unattended earlier this year.

Cairnswell Avenue home where Sandra had lived for 34 years and brought up her children. It was the second time the couple had moved in to look after James’ mum, who also struggled with COPD and osteoporosis and was nursed by them for a year and three months over 2017/18.“It was the last act of kindness I could have done for my mum,” said James, who, as recently as 2018, was named on the tenancy.

pressure mounts on the government to reverse its decision to stop the scheme in July. Traditionally children who qualify for free meals would not have had any support throughout the school break, but campaigners say families are struggling more than ever in these unprecedented times and need to carry on receiving the help.

Household appliances and electrical goods can be recycled at South Lanarkshire’s recycling centres from today (Thursday, June 11).Vans, no larger than a Ford Transit, will also now be able to visit the site on Tuesdays and Thursdays to allow larger and bulkier items to be recycled.Residents will still be able to dispose of general waste and cardboard and garden waste can still be recycled at the council’s six recycling centres in Carluke, Eastfield, Larkhall, East Kilbride, Blantyre and