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Poverty costs us all - so we all need to act
POVERTY

Poverty costs us all - so we all need to act

By Matthew Oakley | 15 September 2025

Tackling UK poverty requires cross-societal action, local government leadership, and a new social contract, with coordinated efforts to improve housing, wellbeing, benefit access, and financial res...

DEVOLUTION

Will devolution deliver on health and growth?

By Mariah Kelly | 12 September 2025

The Government must use the English Devolution Bill to set the framework required for Strategic A...

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Tackling the climate crisis

By Darrell Gale | 29 August 2025

Darrell Gale says that given their experience of working in partnership across multiple sectors, ...

LEISURE

A new vision for leisure

By Ian Fytche | 28 August 2025

A shift to prevention creates a chance to reimagine leisure focused on active wellbeing, writes I...

WELLBEING

The North East is perfectly positioned to lead a wellbeing revolution

By Nick Kemp | 19 August 2025

Nick Kemp explains why the North East should champion public wellbeing.

HEALTH

Championing the fight against poverty

By Matthew Ashton | 23 July 2025

Professor Matthew Ashton says Cheshire and Merseyside’s collaborative approach to addressing pove...

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...

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frederica-diamanta

Head of Housing

£79,968 - £87,755

Lead with purpose. Inspire change. Shape the future of housing in Powys. Apply for this job

Powys County Council

Educational Psychologist

Soulbury Scale A 4-9, plus up to 3 SPA points.

Our newly developed EMBRACE framework guides the actions we take as a team Apply for this job

North East Lincolnshire Council

Director of Business Solutions

£133,234

This is a unique opportunity to play a central role in shaping the region’s economic future and driving long-term prosperity. Apply for this job

Tees Valley Combined Authority