PUBLIC HEALTH

Checking up on the power of prevention

By Jim McManus | 30 April 2019

Jim McManus outlines how to assess if prevention is working – and says it is crucial to define wh...

HEALTH

Don't play the hokey-cokey with health

By Nathan Elvery | 16 April 2019

Local government has turned public health around despite funding cuts. Now it not the time to thi...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Halting knife crime is a multi-agency endeavour

16 April 2019

Rachel Dickinson says much greater investment is needed in children and young people if we are to...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

If empowered, councils can achieve much more on public health

By Nathan Elvery | 09 April 2019

Rather than seeking to downgrade the role of public health within local authorities we should be ...

COUNCIL TAX

Wales launches 'resident-focused' council tax reforms

By Hiba Mahamadi | 01 April 2019

Council tax debtors in Wales will no longer be at risk of imprisonment as part of a new initiativ...

WHITEHALL

Consultation floats new legal duty in violence crackdown

By Dan Peters | 01 April 2019

A new legal duty to support a multi-agency approach to preventing and tackling serious violence c...

HEALTH

Prevention in its own right

By Jim McManus | 27 March 2019

Jim McManus lays out an analysis and narrative that puts councils at the core of the preventativ...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

The trouble with social policy 'evidence'

By Richard Stokoe | 13 March 2019

In making the case for more cash to improve public health based on its ‘evidence of what works’, ...

MANAGEMENT

Putting heads together to deliver healthy places

By Penny Galvin | 06 March 2019

The Local Government Association Challenge 2019 is underway. Lizzie Nugent and Penny Galvin descr...

HEALTH

Hold on to public health

By David Williams | 27 February 2019

Shifting public health functions to councils has led to ‘clear progress and tangible success,’ sa...

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