Public-health - Page 30

By Martin Ford | 07 January 2021

Council leaders in London have called for the closure of places of worship for communal services ...

EDUCATION

Councils resist pressure to reopen schools

By Martin Ford | 04 January 2021

Scores of councils have raised concerns over the return of primary school pupils to classrooms am...

PUBLIC HEALTH

Lack of data is hampering local responses to new virus variant, says Lord Porter

By Ann McGauran | 24 December 2020

District councils are unable to deliver a local response to the new variant of COVID-19 due to a ...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Council refuses to put COVID patients in care homes

By Martin Ford | 24 December 2020

Enfield LBC has said it will not comply with requests to look at providing beds for COVID-positiv...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Hats off to those who have worked tirelessly on the pandemic frontline

By Heather Jameson | 23 December 2020

The efforts of local government at the pandemic frontline during the past year have been nothing ...

HEALTH

'Bitter disappointment' greets tiers review

By Martin Ford | 17 December 2020

Millions more people are facing tougher restrictions from this weekend in an effort to curb a ris...

PUBLIC HEALTH

BME groups less likely to take COVID vaccine

By Ann McGauran | 17 December 2020

A new poll has found that just 57% of respondents from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) ba...

WHITEHALL

Government issues legal threats to councils and schools

By Martin Ford | 15 December 2020

Councils this week clashed with the Government over whether to shut schools amid a surge in COVID...

TROUBLED FAMILIES

'We're still not doing what works in many areas'

By Ann McGauran | 15 December 2020

Are the Government’s latest early years’ initiatives enough to improve the life chances for vulne...

DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

What a year!

By Ann McGauran | 15 December 2020

The MJ reflects on another year in local government, significantly influenced by the pandemic tha...

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