Devon PCT is the new NHS organisation responsible for delivering high-quality health services for almost three-quarters of a million people in the greater Devon area. They manage community hospitals and health centres and work with GPs, dentists, and pharmacies to ensure you have the best and most appropriate services as close to your home as possible. They also commission inpatient treatment, outpatient appointments as well as diagnostic tests at acute hospitals in Exeter, Plymouth, Torbay and North Devon.
For more information visit : www.devonpct.nhs.uk/
The Metropolitan Police
Service is famed around the world and has a unique place in the history of policing. It is by far the largest of the police services that operate ingreater London (the others
include the City of London Police and the British Transport Police). The Royal Parks
Constabulary have now become part of the Metropolitan Police Service. Founded
by Sir Robert Peel in 1829, the original establishment of 1,000 officers policed
a seven-mile radius from Charing Cross and a population of less than 2 million. Today,
the Metropolitan Police Service employs 31,141 officers, 13,661 police staff, 414 traffic
wardens and 2,106 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), and, since the
realignment of police boundaries in April 2000, it covers an area of 620 square
miles and a population of 7.2million.
For more information visit www.met.police.uk
Teignmouth Community College is the only state provider of secondary education in
the coastal town of Teignmouth. It is an average sized comprehensive school providing a high quality curriculum reaching students with diverse needs and expectations.
For more information visit www.teignmouth.devon.sch.uk
Bideford Community College Bideford - where progress comes through learning.
Their aim is to motivate, challenge, support and enable all students to achieve their potential and to take their place in society including, life and career aspirations, qualifications, personal skills, qualities and interests and being good citizens.
For more information visit www.bideford.devon.sch.uk
Devon Youth Services twin purposes are:
1.To support, challenge and enable the learning of young people in order that they may realise their full potential in shaping their own lives.
2. To promote the social and economic inclusion of all young people so that they can contribute to, influence and be valued as part of their community and of society as a whole.
For more information visit www.devonyouthservice.org.uk
Dawlish Community College is a mixed, co-educational, inclusive community college that takes students mainly from the seven primary schools which make up the Dawlish Learning Community, the Devon grouping of primary, secondary and special schools within a geographic area. The catchment is mixed rural/urban/suburban with approximately half of the students bussed in from surrounding villages and settlements. Physically, the catchment is large, stretching up to the Exe estuary and west to the A380.
For more information visit/www.dawlish.devon.sch.uk