Doctors warn regulation around ultra processed foods failing to protect public health
By Liz Wells 12 February 2026
The UK’s current approach to regulating, producing, marketing, and distributing food is failing to protect public health, a new report highlights.
Urgent action needed to protect vulnerable unborn babies, review finds
By Lee Peart 12 February 2026
Urgent action is needed to protect vulnerable unborn babies and infants, a national child safeguarding review has found.
Social housing conditions 'barely improved' since pandemic, MPs say
By William Eichler 09 February 2026
The conditions in England’s social housing have ‘barely improved’ since the Covid-19 pandemic, with nearly 430,000 homes still failing to meet the current minimum standard, MPs say.
Council and ICB award preventative services contract
By Lee Peart 06 February 2026
A Preventative Services Contract for Adults has been awarded to three organisations by Shropshire Council and Shropshire ICB.
Regulations to tackle alcohol misuse in Wales passed
By Liz Wells 04 February 2026
A landmark policy to help reduce deaths and harm from excess alcohol use is to be extended in Wales.
Call for extension of funding for early years' services
By Lee Peart 04 February 2026
Council leaders have said disparities in funding provision for Family Hubs services restricts their ability to deliver integrated health and education provision.
Three in four cancer patients will survive long term by 2035, says Government
By Lee Peart 04 February 2026
Three in four patients will be cancer free or living well after five years by 2035 under the Government’s National Cancer Plan.
First baby bundles land on doorsteps in Wales
By Liz Wells 02 February 2026
Welsh Government-funded ‘baby bundles’, a gift of essential supplies, have started to be delivered to expectant families in Flying Start areas of Wales.
'Is it enough?' MPs to probe Child Poverty Strategy
By Lee Peart 29 January 2026
MPs will examine whether the Government is doing enough to tackle child poverty in a new joint inquiry.
The NHS 10-Year Plan: Why listening at scale matters for local government
By Lee Peart 28 January 2026
Ruth Cousens, chief executive of Thiscovery, outlines what 250,000 voices reveal about prevention, place and the future role of councils.
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