County Council website boots up for bad weather
With more bad weather around the corner, Warwickshire County Council is setting up channels of communication to ensure that residents are kept fully informed of services affected.
The website has a page dedicated to providing up to the minute information on how the roads, buses and public transport, libraries, household waste recycling centres and kerbside collections and social care updates.
By visiting http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/snow residents can keep abreast of all services. Anybody unable to get online can call Warwickshire Direct on 01926 410410 between 8am and 8pm Monday to Friday or 9am and 4pm on Saturday for all information on county and district council services.
Of course, how the bad weather is affecting schools is by far the commonest request and the county has fine-tuned a variety of measures that will help keep the public informed.
Emergency school closure information will be published on the county website, an RSS feed and the council’s Twitter account, @wcc_schoolclosed. Parents can also sign up for email and text alerts.
Last winter, over 20,000 text messages were sent about school closures and hundreds of parents joined the twitter feed about school closures.
Councillor Colin Hayfield, portfolio holder of customers, workforce and governance, said: “The county council is responsible for a wide range of services – schools, roads, public transport, libraries, social care and waste recycling among them – which could possibly be affected by bad weather.
"t is important that we offer residents a comprehensive range of communication about these services which keep them informed in the manner which best suits them.”