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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...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Call to remove care home 'barriers'
By Martin Ford | 14 December 2020
Councils have been called on to ensure care home residents can meet their friends and family.
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