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Thurrock is marking Kinship Care Week (5 to 11 October) by highlighting the important role kinship carers play in supporting children and young people across the borough.

Kinship carers are relatives or family friends who step in to care for children when their parents are unable to do so. This can include grandparents, aunts, uncles, older siblings and close family friends who provide children with stability while helping them maintain important family and community connections.

Thurrock Council is hosting a free careers fair for residents to learn about the growing opportunities in Construction, Green Skills, Transport & Logistics.

The event is taking place on Thursday 15 October at the Thameside Theatre and is being hosted in partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and sponsored by Statera.

Residents can attend from 10am to 12pm, with a quieter session for neurodiverse people taking place from 12pm to 1pm.

A range of exciting employers and training providers will be in attendance, including:

There are currently a number of significant development proposals being promoted in and around West Horndon, spanning both the Brentwood and Thurrock Council administrative areas. 

A Thurrock resident has been committed to prison for 90 days after persistently refusing to pay Council Tax and failing to engage with multiple attempts by the council to resolve their debt.

Students at Thurrock College were given an insight into exciting careers in the building industry, thanks to a visit from construction and development company Auburn Group. 

Auburn Group is currently delivering six new council homes at Lyndhurst Road in Stanford-Le-Hope on behalf of Thurrock Council. 

This week I had the pleasure of going behind the scenes at the Thameside Complex and Grays Central Library, and I would like to thank Joseph and his team for taking the time to show me around what is a genuinely precious, yet wonderfully accessible, community resource.

The library’s local history collection is remarkable. Behind the scenes are decades of records and publications documenting the people, businesses, communities and institutions that made Thurrock what it is today.

Two-thirds of people in the East of England support the landmark new law, while almost eight in 10 people who have ever smoked regret starting.

With just three months to go until landmark new tobacco legislation comes into effect, Thurrock Council is backing the move to create the first Smokefree

Business owners and leaders are being offered the chance to learn how artificial intelligence (AI) can help solve everyday challenges and improve productivity through a series of free courses from Thames Freeport.

The first course starts in Grays on Thursday 1 October, with a second beginning on Wednesday 18 November.