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Being a parent has never been easy. It can be lonely, frustrating, heartbreaking and overwhelming. Life changing events can happen to anyone. All parents struggle at one time or another. That is why Home-Start is ready to support families through their toughest times.

Volunteers are trained to provide practical and emotional support to families with young children through one-to-one home visiting and in Home-Start Butser’s Family Groups.

All our services are based around the principal that volunteers offer no judgement, just compassionate, confidential help and support.

If you would like to find out how to get help or if you are interested in becoming a volunteer visit:

www.homestart-butser.org.uk 01730 233755

Funded Childcare, Early Years Education

For information and eligibility regarding free education and childcare for 2-year-olds, please click here

For information and eligibility regarding early years pupil premium if your child is 3 or 4, please click here

Hampshire County Council

FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT

This is the time of year when we need to think about the state of Hampshire’s land drainage network. As the season for more rainy days approaches and leaves begin to fall, all riparian owners (those who have watercourses on or bordering their land) across Hampshire, should be checking the state of drainage ditches, pipes, culverts that carry watercourses to ensure there is unobstructed conveyance of surface (rain) water to reduce the risk of localised flooding.

Please see below link for leaflet/poster detailing what responsibilities riparian owners have and guidance on how to undertake this maintenance to reduce flooding from surface water. Please also review our updated web pages on flood prevention where there is a video about riparian responsibility and clearer advice on riparian responsibilities and ditch maintenance:
https://www.hants.gov.uk/landplanningandenvironment/environment/flooding/floodprevention

You can report flooding via the link ‘Report flooding’ on our website or emailing us at fwm@hants.gov.uk

To reduce the risk of future flooding we would also appreciate being informed of any planned, ongoing or recent works to install a culvert, pipe or infill/realign a ditch (i.e. an ordinary watercourse) so that we can check that a land drainage consent is in place for those works. Please see ‘Making changes to a watercourse’ for further details.

If you have any further enquiries regarding this or any other areas of flood risk management, please visit our website for further information: https://www.hants.gov.uk/landplanningandenvironment/environment/flooding

Flood Risk Management - Landowners information leaflet

OPERATION RESILIENCE - Frogmore Lane, Horndean - Carriageway Surface Repairs

Please click here for details

HAMPSHIRE HIGHWAYS - ROAD MAINTENANCE

Making the most of our resources is key to ensuring we deliver the most effective and efficient highways service we can across Hampshire’s 5,500 miles of road. We continue to make the most of digital technology to ensure residents can keep up to date about highways works in their area, report issues to us, and plan their journeys.

These include:

Online reporting issues on the roads direct to us, where people can keep track their report: www.hants.gov.uk/transport/roadmaintenance/roadproblems
Improved information on our web pages about major schemes: www.hants.gov.uk/transport/transportschemes
Ensuring details of all County Council work, along with that of utilities companies is up to date on: www.roadworks.org
Driving up engagement on our social media channels, including @hantshighways and @ROMANSE on Twitter

HAMPSHIRE CONSTABULARY

Please click on the link for the most recent Crime Prevention Bulletin information.

Crime Prevention Bulletin March 2023

The Police

The Blue Lamp Trust offers crime prevention advisory service to Hampshire's most vulnerable residents

Dear Karin,

Hampshire Constabulary wanted to share an update with you from our partners, The Blue Lamp Trust, of which our Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney is a Trustee.

The Blue Lamp Trust helps protect vulnerable residents in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight from becoming victims of crime - as part of their crime prevention advisory service.

The scheme from the Blue Lamp Trust offers FREE home visits providing both general and specific crime and fire prevention advice to improve home safety.

They visit residents of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight who are:

Vulnerable due to age (over 65)
Disabled
A victim of crime
A victim of burglary
A victim of domestic abuse

Their trained, police vetted, Bobby Scheme Fitters will visit and carry out a full survey and, as appropriate fit items free of charge, such as:

Locks
Spy Holes
Door Chains
Smoke Alarms
Carbon Monoxide Alarms

Installing Key Safes
They can also supply and fit Supra C500 Key Safes. These are ACPO Police Accredited and have a 5-year guarantee. Cost £75.

All of the Blue Lamp Trust advisors are police vetted and carry ID cards to reassure local residents that they are genuine – and please remember, they will not be offended if you ask to see their ID to validate their identity.

Referrals

If you, or anybody you know, is eligible (based on the criteria above) and would benefit from a Bobby Scheme referral, please enquire via the Blue Lamp Trust website at https://www.bluelamptrust.org.uk/bobby-scheme-choice/.

Alternatively, you can make an enquiry by calling the Blue Lamp Trust directly on 0300 777 0157.

Message Sent By
Wes Hutchins
(Police, Corporate Communications Officer, Hampshire and Isle of Wight)

WALKING IN HAMPSHIRE

Are you fed-up with doing the same old walks?

Walking in Hampshire www.walkinginengland.co.uk/hants is the website for you!

With hundreds of walks to download and print, free, it also has books of walks, contact details for all the walking groups in the county and much more. Whether you want to walk on your own or with a group all the information is there in one place.

John said ‘There is so much walking information on the web but it is difficult to find. Walking in Hampshire (part of the Walking in England suite of websites (www.walkinginengland.co.uk) – one for each county in England) has brought it together in one place so whether you are walking from home, or away on holiday, you will be able to find a walk suitable for you’.

With walks from half a mile to twelve miles plus long, and a note of suitability for pushchairs and wheelchairs, everyone can find a walk to enjoy.

So home or away, check out the websites and get walking!

John Harris

www.walkinginengland.co.uk

email: john@walkinginengland.co.uk

Footpath Closures

Potential closure of footpaths: Information for residents can be found via the following link below. If any footpaths, including urban paths are not shown, an application needs to be made to Hampshire County Council to hopefully ensure its continuance. The application process can be found by following the link.

https://www.hants.gov.uk/landplanningandenvironment/rightsofway/definitivemap

What is a Definitive Map?

Each highway authority keeps a Definitive Map and Statement of all public rights of way - the formal legal record of the existence of footpaths, bridleways, restricted byways and byways open to all traffic. In total it offers more than 137,000 miles of public footpath, bridleway and byway providing a level of access admired throughout the world.