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A summing up of closures and delays due to road works, events or cruise visits - for the week starting Monday 24 June 2024.

The Council has introduced specific recycling bins for vapes and e-cigarettes at our three Household Waste and Recycling Centres – Hatston, Garson and Bossack. 

The Orkney Ferries Shore Street office will be open on Sundays from 23 June 2024.  

The call is out for community members in Firth and Stenness to help champion their local area by coming on board the Community Council at a meeting next month.

It’s Drowning Prevention Week (DPW) from 15-22 June and with the summer holidays nearly upon us, it’s timely for us to remind folk of some of the key messaging around water safety. 

An additional direct funding award of £400k for the Orkney 2025 Island Games has been recommended by Orkney Islands Council's Policy and Resources Committee. 

That recommendation will now go to Full Council on 2 July.  

Orkney Islands Council has launched two recruitment incentive schemes to encourage more people to join its social care workforce.

There is a shortage of carers joining the profession across the country and, over recent years, the Council has faced unprecedented challenges in recruiting to its health and social care workforce

Great sporting events are for all ages as was witnessed recently when two Council-run day centres teamed up to compete in their annual Parish and Olympic Cup events. 

People attending the West Mainland Day Centre in Dounby experience “compassion, dignity and respect”, according to the Care Inspectorate. 

Key deadline dates are approaching for those intending to cast their vote in the UK General Election on 4 July.