Wirral has taken a key step in making SEND services better, showing progress within just a few months of a refreshed major improvement programme being put in place.
With the school holidays just around the corner, thousands of local young people can look forward to an action-packed break with Free Summer Holiday Clubs.
Foster carers, teachers and social workers and others involved with helping young people within - or who have just left the care system - were thanked by those they have helped by at a special awards event.
Wirral is part of Foster4, a collaborative fostering recruitment hub in the North West, urgently looking to recruit foster carers in Cheshire and Merseyside.
Wirral-based charity Neo Community is recognised by the Department for Education as the best Holiday Activity with Food (HAF) provider in the North West.