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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Embedding good health
By Sarah Muckle | 30 April 2025
It is a decade since responsibility for the Healthy Child Programme moved to local government. Sa...
PUBLIC HEALTH
Health inequalities are not inevitable
By Kelly O'Neill | 11 April 2025
Kelly O’Neill looks at how Hounslow LBC used the NHS England CORE20PLUS5 framework to identify re...
PUBLIC HEALTH
Funding commitment will keep us off the critical list
By Greg Fell | 10 April 2025
While the recent announcement of a real terms increase in the Public Health Grant allocation for ...
PUBLIC HEALTH
Bridging the gap
By Louise Gittins | 01 April 2025
Cllr Louise Gittins says that with the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poo...
HEALTH
Future Forum: 'NHS is stuck on its own hamster wheel'
By Dan Peters | 19 March 2025
Taking public health out of the NHS made it easier for the health service to avoid thinking about...
PUBLIC HEALTH
Transforming the world one run at a time
By Lisa McNally | 10 February 2025
Parkrun generates tangible health, wellbeing and economic benefits in Worcestershire without the ...
POLITICS
Government increases public health grant by 5.4%
By Lee Peart | 07 February 2025
A £200m boost to public health services from 2024-25 has been announced by the Government.
HEALTH
Rays of hope for health
By Katherine Merrifield | 03 February 2025
Katherine Merrifield says that while the Devolution White Paper and the funding settlement set ou...
EMERGENCY PLANNING
Councils to take part in national pandemic exercise
By Martin Ford | 17 January 2025
Local authorities will take part in the UK’s largest-ever pandemic exercise later this year.
PUBLIC HEALTH
Planning for health
By Darrell Gale | 21 November 2024
Darrell Gale examines ways of strengthening partnerships between planning and public health, incl...
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- LGA proposes alternative to commissioners
- Council changes approach to providers after contract collapse
- Manchester 'won't rest' until behaviour concerns addressed
- EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs push for councils to be viewed equally as Government seeks to rewire the state
- Local government reorganisation: Financial sustainability amid uncertainty
Chief Executive
Competitive Salary
You will lead an organisation with ambition, complexity and reach, while helping shape the future of a place Apply for this job
Director of Family Help & Children’s Social Care
Up to £123,477
To help drive this vision forward, we’re seeking an exceptional Director of Family Help & Children’s Social Care. Apply for this job
Deputy Director Children’s Services (Director of Children’s Social Care)
Competitive Salary
Reporting to the Director of Children’s Services, you will lead services across one of England Apply for this job
- LGA proposes alternative to commissioners
- Council changes approach to providers after contract collapse
- Manchester 'won't rest' until behaviour concerns addressed
- EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs push for councils to be viewed equally as Government seeks to rewire the state
- Local government reorganisation: Financial sustainability amid uncertainty
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