Beyond the Leisure Centre: How to make the case for active wellbeing investment
This special report from LocalGov and Alliance Leisure makes the case for repositioning council leisure provision as prevention infrastructure.
Care service failed to meet cultural needs
28/11/2023 A woman suffered diet and skin problems because the nursing home her council placed her in failed to meet her cultural needs, a watchdog has found. |
New funding to improve life of mothers and babies
22/01/2021 The 19 projects chosen to share a £7.6m fund to reduce health inequalities among new mothers and babies have been announced by the Government. |
Peers call for public service reform to improve resilience
13/11/2020 Peers have warned that ‘fundamental weaknesses’ in public services must be addressed in order to withstand future crises. |
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Youth and BAME jobs hit hardest by lockdown
28/10/2020 Young people, BAME workers and those on insecure contracts have lost out most as a result of the changing jobs market during the COVID-19 crisis, says new research from the Resolution Foundation. |
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Baroness Lawrence calls for urgent action to tackle structural racial inequalities
27/10/2020 Structural racism meant Black, Asian and minority ethnic people were disproportionately affected by the COVID pandemic, a new review has warned. |
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Charity calls for improvements to adoption process to encourage black adopters
12/10/2020 An adoption charity has called for improvements to the adoption assessment process in order to encourage more members of the black community to become adoptive parents. |
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BAME communities ‘underrepresented’ at the local level, audit reveals
26/04/2019 The underrepresentation of minorities at the local level gives the impression that local leaders ‘don't care about representative democracy’, campaigners say. |
