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Solace urges Better Care Fund rethink

By Dan Peters 23 April 2026

Council chief executives have called for an urgent rethink of how funds like the Better Care Fund are structured, governed and deployed.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Council raises concerns over plans to move children's A&E

By Lee Peart 22 April 2026

West Lancashire Borough Council has vowed to challenge a decision to move the children’s Accident and Emergency department at Ormskirk Hospital to Southport Hospital.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Streeting's health experiment

21 April 2026

The health deals recently handed to mayors could resolve flaws that have dogged the NHS since its inception, writes Matthew Taylor

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Professor Lisa McNally, director of public health for Worcestershire County Council, says the new Public Health Peer Review programme will benefit public health teams and system partners striving t...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Improvement notice lifted on Oxfordshire's SEND services

By Lee Peart 20 April 2026

An improvement notice for SEND services in Oxfordshire issued following an inspection by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission in 2023 has been lifted.

PREVENTION

North London measles cases rising outside Enfield

By Lee Peart 09 April 2026

Measles cases are showing ‘signs of stabilisation’ in north London but rising outside Enfield, according to the latest statistics.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Councils increase debt to fund higher social care costs

By Lee Peart 08 April 2026

Councils are falling further into debt to fund rising social care costs, analysis has found.

WORKFORCE

Unison proposes adult social care pension scheme

By Lee Peart 08 April 2026

A letter proposing a pension scheme for adult social care workers funded by employers and employees has been sent by Unison to health and social care secretary Wes Streeting.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Health devolution: opportunity or distraction?

07 April 2026

Katherine Merrifield, assistant director at The Health Foundation, says the creation of mayoral health commissioners is a significant step but must be enabled by a genuinely joined-up approach, whe...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT