Two of Cheshire’s biggest further education colleges have today launched a public consultation on a proposed merger.
The proposal would bring together Cheshire College – South & West, including its Crewe campus, and Macclesfield College.
Plans are underway for Cheshire College – South & West to merge with Macclesfield College.
If the merger goes ahead, it would create a huge education provider with around 11,000 learners.
The Principal and CEO of Cheshire College – South & West has been awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Jasbir Dheshi – known as Dheshi – was awarded it for services to education.
Cheshire College – South & West is celebrating its five-year anniversary following the merger of South Cheshire College and West Cheshire College.
The milestone coincides with the Higher Education Graduation Ceremony at Chester Cathedral.
NHS England / Improvement has formally approved the merger of Cheshire’s four NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups into one.
Accountable Officer Clare Watson received confirmation that NHS South Cheshire, NHS Eastern Cheshire, NHS Vale Royal and NHS West Cheshire will become the first CCGs in Cheshire and Merseyside to merge on April 1 2020.
By Stephen Topping
Plans to transform the way health and social care services are provided in Cheshire have been given support from residents.
More than three-quarters of respondents to an NHS survey have backed the proposed merger of South Cheshire, Eastern Cheshire, West Cheshire, and Vale Royal clinical commissioning groups (CCGs).
Health leaders in Cheshire want people to air their views on plans to merge four Clinical Commissioning Groups into one.
The proposals aim to improve how CCGs work in buying health services available to people across the county, and to make the best use of money available to the local NHS.
Reaseheath College in Nantwich will not merge with North Shropshire College after they failed to secure Government funding for the move.
The colleges have been working together for over a year, sharing best practice and quality improvement projects.
South Cheshire College and West Cheshire College have today formally merged to create a new FE College for Cheshire.
The newly formed college, which will have an annual turnover of £40m with more than 11,000 students and 1,300 apprentices, will retain the existing brands of South Cheshire College and West Cheshire College at its campuses in Crewe, Ellesmere Port and Chester.
Two well-known accountants firms in Nantwich and Crewe have merged.
Crewe-based Banks Sheridan has joined forces with Nantwich firm Sammons & Co.
South Cheshire homes provider Wulvern Housing Ltd has become part of The Guinness Partnership Ltd following a legal merger.
Wulvern’s 5,500 homes, including a number of extra care schemes across Cheshire and Staffordshire, have transferred to Guinness.
Reaseheath College in Nantwich and North Shropshire College are forming a federation which will benefit students, communities and businesses.
Both colleges specialise in land-based subjects and technical and vocational qualifications.
South Cheshire College is in talks with three other colleges in the county to create one FE college by 2018.
The talks follow a review of Further Education across Cheshire and Warrington.
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