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Keeping children local

By Ann McGauran | 03 December 2024

Could Regional Care Cooperatives offer a future solution to the problems of a lack of suitable children’s placements locally and profiteering by providers? Ann McGauran reports.

POLICY

Social worker safety put at risk by policy changes

By Emily Twinch | 03 December 2024

Policy changes reducing police presence at mental health incidents are putting the safety of soci...

LOCAL ECONOMIES

Community wealth (and health) building

By Tom Lloyd Goodwin | 02 December 2024

Tom Lloyd Goodwin highlights three things that stood out from CLES’s final Community Wealth Build...

The NHS needs to get better before it gets bigger

By Elizabeth Campbell | 11 November 2024

Cllr Elizabeth Campbell says that for years councils have grappled with limited budgets, and have...

PREVENTION

Public services must welcome partnership and prevention

By Emmet Regan | 06 November 2024

Social care is pointing the way towards the use of working in partnership to deliver public servi...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Supporting the NHS's three big shifts

By Melanie Williams | 06 November 2024

Melanie Williams examines the role of social care in realising the Government’s ten year health plan

PLANNING

Next steps for healthy places

By Gemma Hyde | 31 October 2024

Dr Emma Bird and Gemma Hyde highlight a new guide that shows there is much that can be done to cr...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Put health at the heart of the plan

By Katherine Merrifield | 31 October 2024

A new report suggests current arrangements for devolution limit the effectiveness of action to ta...

HEALTH

Budget: £22.6bn rise in day-to-day spending for NHS

By Lee Peart | 30 October 2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a £22.6bn rise in the day-to-day health budget, representing 4...

FINANCE

Call for council finance taskforce

By Martin Ford | 24 October 2024

A local government finance taskforce has been proposed in a bid to reduce health inequalities.

MJ AWARDS

Hounslow's healthy haven

By Gwen Nightingale | 17 October 2024

Katherine Merrifield and Gwen Nightingale explain why Hounslow LBC’s focus on digital exclusion e...

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