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Making the healthy choice easy
OBESITY

Making the healthy choice easy

By Ansaf Azhar | 08 August 2023

Oxfordshire has developed a four-pillared approach to creating a county that makes it easier for people to maintain a healthy weight and be active, says Ansaf Azhar.

HEALTH

The importance of the local

By Professor Jim McManus | 31 July 2023

The local levers to achieve preventative change have often been badly understood by Governments a...

HEALTH

The drugs won't work

By Professor Jim McManus | 13 June 2023

Short-term strategies like the latest drugs pilot to tackle obesity won’t fix the problem, says P...

HEALTH

Council leaders blast Government over 'sugar levy'

By William Eichler | 12 August 2022

Council leaders have urged the Government to stick to its pledge to reinvest money raised from th...

HEALTH

Council leaders criticise food strategy as 'missed opportunity'

By William Eichler | 14 June 2022

Local authority leaders have criticised the Government’s new food strategy as a 'missed opportuni...

HEALTH

How councils keep public health top of the agenda

By Professor Jim McManus | 25 May 2022

It’s 175 years since England’s first municipal public health official was appointed, so how are l...

HEALTH

HMJ: AI set to be used to tackle obesity across Leicester

15 March 2022

Leicester City Council will be using artificial intelligence to develop personalised weight loss ...

PUBLIC HEALTH

Councils should be at the centre of a renewed push on public health

By Cllr Sir Ray Puddifoot | 07 September 2020

Councils must be at the heart of a new, reinvigorated national push on improving public health pr...

LEISURE

Leisure centre closures threaten the drive to boost the nation's health

By Michael Burton | 10 June 2020

Health secretary Matt Hancock does not want to be in the awkward position of calling on better pr...

PUBLIC HEALTH

By investing in parks society will reap long-term rewards

By Paul O’Brien | 09 June 2020

Over the past few months many have turned to parks as their daily release from the pressures of l...

PUBLIC HEALTH

Taking the initiative together to tackle unhealthy weight

By Cllr Sarah Addenbrooke | 28 January 2020

Kensington & Chelsea RLBC’s Go Golborne initiative has stopped the rise in childhood obesity in t...

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Local Audit Office - Non-Executive Directors

£420 per day (48 days per annum)

Local public bodies are at the heart of our communities. Apply for this job

Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government

Waste & Cleansing Operations Manager

£51,356.00 - £54,495.00, Grade 12, 37 hours, Permanent

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Wakefield Council

Finance Manager – Accountancy (Children & Families) 

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