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PUBLIC HEALTH
It's time to focus virus 'contain' funding on families and streets
By Cllr John Fuller OBE | 01 March 2021
We need to recalibrate and resource the Contain Outbreak Management Fund activity on preparing fo...
FINANCE
Mayors call for self-isolation overhaul
By Martin Ford | 01 March 2021
Local government leaders have called for changes to self-isolation payments to increase complianc...
FINANCE
Public health commissioning move 'illogical'
By Dan Peters | 25 February 2021
A suggestion from the body representing NHS trusts that the commissioning of key public health se...
FINANCE
Councils to receive £400m to tackle COVID-19
By Martin Ford | 25 February 2021
The Government has announced funding of £400m for English councils to support COVID-19 test, trac...
HEALTH
Tackling the big four vaccine challenges
By Jim McManus | 24 February 2021
Tackling inequity in vaccination uptake depends on resolving what Jim McManus calls the big four ...
PUBLIC HEALTH
Public health chiefs call for more data on jab take-up
By Ann McGauran | 24 February 2021
Councils still lack the detailed data they need on COVID vaccination take-up to tackle inequities...
COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK
Plenty of reasons to be cheerful in the health and care White Paper
By Cllr David Fothergill | 24 February 2021
Cllr David Fothergill says while many of the 2012 health reforms will now be unwound, local gover...
DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES
Delay in asking councils to track shielding people
By Martin Ford | 23 February 2021
The Government failed to ask councils for help contacting vulnerable shielding people for weeks a...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
It's time for councils to step up and give a lead on care home visiting
By Claire Fox | 23 February 2021
Local authorities should support local care homes to find creative ways to open up to relatives, ...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
We need to better capture the impact of community power
By Luca Tiratelli | 23 February 2021
New Local's latest report forensically and persuasively shows community power works, and now we n...
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