Council refutes check-up charges
Authority denies plan to charge parents
Cornwall Council has denied that it is planning to make parents pay for health checks for their babies and children.
The council’s cabinet meets today to discuss proposals to bring together education, early years, community children’s health, early help and social care in one integrated service.
Unite, the union, said the choice facing the cabinet was between keeping children’s services in-house or a socalled “alternative delivery model” by a company that is separate from the council with the potential to make profits from parents.
However, a council spokesperson insisted: “There will be no charges for any health services for children and young people.”
Artists, performers, schoolchildren, community groups, volunteers and spectators will gather on beaches in Devon and Cornwall on Sunday to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the First World War.
Large-scale portraits of men from the two counties who were killed in the conflict will be created in the sand at Porthcurno near Land’s End, Porthmeor in St Ives, Perranporth and East Looe, in Cornwall, and Saunton Sands in North Devon.
They are among 32 beaches in the UK that involved in the remembrance project led by film director Danny Boyle.
There will be other commemorative activities on the beaches including on Porthmeor Beach from noon a community choir performing a specially-commissioned song.
On East Looe from noon, a Sea Scouts group will sing and schoolchildren’s commemorative artwork will be displayed. Gig rowers will take to the ocean and there will be a specially choreographed performance by East Looe Pioneers Running Club.
Hall for Cornwall Youth will be perform on Perranporth beach beginning at noon alongside an interactive installation created by Cornish artists. The public are invited to bring a memory in remembrance.
At Saunton Sands from 2pm there will be a drumming flash mob, pebble art workshops and a choir performance by Devonbased Wren Music of songs written for the home front.