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      <title>City council launches new strategy to support children in education</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council has set out ambitious new targets to raise school standards, improve attendance and give every child a better start in life. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Let the winter fun begin with FREE activities for children</title>
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      <description>More than 6,400 opportunities are available for children across Stoke-on-Trent to enjoy free activities and healthy meals during the winter holidays. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>“The work goes on”: school improvements to continue as PFI contract draws to a close</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council will work closely with schools and Academy Trusts to continue improvement works at the end of the city’s 25-year Private Finance Initiative (PFI). </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Primary school exclusions fall by three quarters as more pupils supported to stay in class</title>
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      <description>Permanent exclusions have reduced in schools across Stoke-on-Trent - helping more children to remain in school. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Nearly 1,200 cared for children supported to do well in school</title>
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      <description>More than 1,160 children and young people in Stoke-on-Trent who are cared for - or were previously cared for - have been given extra help over the past year to succeed in their education.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Council set to ensure essential work done as part of schools PFI hand back</title>
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      <description>Stoke-on-Trent City Council is prepared to step in to ensure essential improvements to the city’s school buildings reach completion as part of the hand back process for its Private Finance Initiative.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:47:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Council secures secondary school place for every child despite increasing demand</title>
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      <description>The council has ensured that every child moving from primary to secondary school this September and requesting a place in a city school has been offered one - despite continued pressures on demand.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Have a wonderful winter with FREE school holiday activities</title>
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      <description>Families looking for something for the kids to do over the school holidays can access over 170 free sessions as part of the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>  City Music Service return to Victoria Hall stage with a series of Christmas concerts </title>
      <link>https://www.stoke.gov.uk/news/article/1664/city_music_service_return_to_victoria_hall_stage_with_a_series_of_christmas_concerts</link>
      <description>Tickets are on sale for a series of concerts which will showcase some of the best young musicians and singers in Stoke-on-Trent.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>More children with SEND able to access support they need in their local community </title>
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      <description>More places for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Stoke-on-Trent will mean that more children can access the right support, at the right time,</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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