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DHSC

10-Year Health Plan to offer enhanced role for local government

By Lee Peart 02 July 2025

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has said the 10-Year Health Plan this week will offer local government an enhanced role in health.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Work with us to deliver 10-Year Health Plan, say councils

By Lee Peart 01 July 2025

Cllr Louise Gittins, chair of the Local Government Association (LGA), will today call on the Government to set up a new national-local coalition to help deliver neighbourhood health models that put...

PREVENTION

Gambling harms initiative scoops healthcare inequalities award

By Lee Peart 24 June 2025

A programme to tackle the harms caused by gambling has scooped a prestigious award for reducing healthcare inequalities.

THE HEALTH FOUNDATION

What the Spending Review means for local government

23 June 2025

It’s a tough road ahead with glimmers of hope, writes Andria Mastroianni, policy officer in the Healthy Lives team at The Health Foundation

MENTAL HEALTH

Report calls for cross-sector action on ADHD

By Lee Peart 23 June 2025

An NHSE commissioned report has called for cross-sector support for ADHD to reduce school exclusions, ease pressure on mental health and wider health services, and help more people thrive at home, ...

PREVENTION

'We're failing test on childhood obesity,' report warns

By Lee Peart 23 June 2025

A new report has warned the UK is ‘failing the test on childhood obesity’.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Reform Mayor 'deeply concerned' about ICB merger plans

By Lee Peart 23 June 2025

Reform UK Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire Dame Andrea Jenkyns is ‘deeply concerned’ about plans to merge with Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

SEND

SEND deficit override extended

By Dan Peters 23 June 2025

The Dedicated Schools Grant statutory override will be extended for another two years until the end of 2027-28, the Government has said.

SEND

Call to write-off SEND deficits with councils on a 'cliff edge'

By Lee Peart 18 June 2025

Councils have called on the Government to write off a projected £5bn SEND deficit as MPs have warned that local authorities face a financial cliff edge.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT