A council has invited residents to draw up their own budgets to decide how £2.2 billion should be spent next year. Essex County Council wants people to balance its budget, deciding which services ...

Figures from Essex County Council show that 98.37 per cent of primary school-age children starting reception in September 2025 have been offered one of their parents’ preferred schools. However ...

That's it for our live coverage of the local elections in Essex. We will bring you the rest of the county's results as they come in during the afterrnon and evening and then over the weekend via ...

Canvey councillor Ray Howard is set to meet with Essex County Council leader Lord Hanningfield and his deputy, Peter Martin, to discuss whether the Continuum School could be shifted to a more ...

Essex County Council is pumping £15m into an IT infrastructure upgrade expected to create efficiency savings of £7m per year. CIO David Wilde speaks to Computer Weekly about investing in IT to ...

Essex County council has begun holding its meetings electronically to keep members apart during the ongoing effort to flatten the curve in the spread of COVID-19.

ESSENTIALLY Essex, a new website containing photographs of Essex taken by Essex people, is now online. The site contains more than 400 images of the county taken during the Millennium, including ...

Essex County Council said 74 of its libraries would remain open for people to access. The council also provided £750,000 in funding for foodbanks and winter warmth essentials.

Essex County Council issued 35,605 fines to parents between 2022 and 2024 - a total of £2.05 million paid by parents.

More than 100 primary and secondary schools have been closed due to snowfall in Essex. By 09:00 GMT, Essex County Council's website had 113 schools listed as shut or opening later due to the weather.