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CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Investment in children's centres helps deliver real results

By Cllr Judith Blake | 08 May 2019

Leeds has become the first UK city to lower its childhood obesity rate - and the role played by c...

PUBLIC HEALTH

London boroughs PrEP for impact

By Ray Puddifoot | 30 April 2019

Cllr Ray Puddifoot is proud of the London local government decision to boost HIV prevention by pr...

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...

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...

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...

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’, ...

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frederica-diamanta

Executive Director of Place and Customer

up to £179,404 per annum

Shape the Future of Essex. Drive climate action. Deliver for our communities. Apply for this job

Essex County Council

Assistant Director Service Development

 £100,545 - £111,533 plus relocation support

Premium jobWelcome, and thank you for your interest in learning more about North Yorkshire Council and this exciting role. Apply for this job

North Yorkshire Council

Development & Adoptions Lead WMF2670e

£51,356 - £52,413

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Thriving Places Directorate within the Highways Consenting Team Apply for this job

Westmorland and Furness Council

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