The district has become home to nearly 200 Ukrainian individuals and families who have been supported to settle here after fleeing conflict. Since 2022, Newark and Sherwood District Council has so far assisted 181 individuals or families into hosted placements, and continues to offer help during the ongoing conflict. Four more are expected to arrive in the district soon — and since the council’s humanitarian response began it has developed an improved system to help people settle in in the area. Suzanne Shead, director of housing, health and wellbeing at Newark and Sherwood District Council sa…
