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FINANCE

Blood out of stone

By Tony Kirkham | 02 September 2020

Opportunities to drive out further efficiencies from councils lie in prevention and integration, ...

HEALTH

Government late to involve councils in coronavirus testing, report finds

By Dan Peters | 01 September 2020

Central government was late to consider how councils could help ramp up coronavirus testing in th...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Making the most of remote working

By Karishma Vakta-Smith | 30 August 2020

Solace's Karishma Vakta-Smith looks at the impact of remote working, and what it means for the fu...

HEALTH

'Glacial and ungracious' change to a more local track, trace and isolate programme

By Paul Wheeler | 30 August 2020

'We have the grotesque spectacle of a spatchcock national track and trace strategy administered b...

HEALTH

Regulators refusing to make care home deaths public

By Ann McGauran | 28 August 2020

Regulators are keeping the COVID-19 death tolls at individual care homes secret in part to protec...

HEALTH

New scheme to support self-isolating workers does not go 'far enough', Burnham says

By William Eichler | 27 August 2020

Mayor Andy Burnham has criticised the Government’s announcement of a new payment for people who a...

HEALTH

Fifth of care homes took on COVID patients, survey reveals

By Heather Jameson | 24 August 2020

One in five care homes had to accept patients discharged from hospital who had tested positive fo...

HEALTH

Hancock under pressure on anti-obesity plans following PHE closure

By Ann McGauran | 24 August 2020

Health secretary Matt Hancock is under growing pressure today to say who will take responsibility...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

We must find a way to invest in our future

By Jenny Coles | 19 August 2020

The ‘hidden harms’ to children over the past six months will be uncovered when schools fully open...

HEALTH

MPs call for 'urgent and targeted' support to avoid 'blunt' lockdown

By Ann McGauran | 19 August 2020

Three MPs have written to health secretary Matt Hancock calling for ‘urgent and targeted support’...