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Closing the collaboration gap

02 April 2026

Victor Adebowale looks at how to move from rhetoric to reality and make collaboration between local government and health possible.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Show us the money

By Lee Peart 01 April 2026

Social care funding is ‘a classic for the insurance system’, and the deadline for the final Casey Commission report should be brought forward. Lee Peart reports from a Smith Square debate.

PREVENTION

Place-based partnership to receive Sport England funding

By Lee Peart 30 March 2026

Energize Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, on behalf of Shropshire Integrated Place Partnership (SHIPP), is to receive over £500,000 in Sport England funding to tackle inactivity and health inequalitie...

PREVENTION

Scottish councils call for leisure and sport investment as prevention tool

By William Eichler 26 March 2026

Scotland's councils are calling for long-term investment in public leisure and sport, warning that short-term funding and outdated legislation are putting vital community services under serious str...

SOCIAL CARE

A design moment for social care

26 March 2026

Paul Burstow, chair of the board, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), says the Fair Pay Agreement and Casey Commission create a rare opportunity to revisit the design of social care.

COMMUNITY

Council provides update on delayed integrated care centre

By Lee Peart 26 March 2026

An update has been provided on the delay to the opening of an integrated care centre following the discovery of legionella bacteria.

INTEGRATED CARE

Health devolution deals to give greater powers to mayors

By Lee Peart 26 March 2026

Two new health devolution deals are to give greater powers to mayors in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Top schools accused of shutting out pupils with SEND

By William Eichler 24 March 2026

Top state schools admit far fewer disadvantaged special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) pupils than local averages, according to new research from the Sutton Trust.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Care partnership set to disband

By Martin Ford 24 March 2026

Councils in Wales have called time on a partnership pooling health and care budgets.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

NHS trust to transfer social care back to local council

By Lee Peart 24 March 2026

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is to serve 12-month notice of its plans to hand back responsibility for social care to Torbay Council.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Ofsted overhauls children's services inspections

By William Eichler 24 March 2026

Ofsted has announced changes to how it inspects local authority children's services, with updates to its ILACS framework taking effect from April 2026.