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Families made the most of activities on offer across Central Bedfordshire during the summer holidays.

We held a celebration event on Thursday 31 July to recognise and celebrate the achievements of children in care and young people across the area.

We're supporting families of children eligible for free school meals over the summer holidays, by providing supermarket vouchers.

Families across Central Bedfordshire can look forward to a summer packed with exciting, affordable activities for children of all ages.

Our popular Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme is returning for summer 2025.

Inspiring Music, our music service, has partnered with The Family Music Hub (TFMH) to launch a new training programme for early years practitioners.

In March 2025, we wrote to all parent governors of schools we maintain, seeking nominations for 2 parent governor representative posts on the Children’s Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

On Thursday, 15 May, Councillor Kevin Collins was appointed as Chair of Central Bedfordshire Council and Councillor Vicky Malone has been appointed as Vice Chair.

Maythorn children’s home in Biggleswade has been rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted following a recent inspection, carried out over two days.

We're proud to announce another successful outcome from Ofsted, which has once again rated our children’s social care services as Good, following its latest inspection.