Publications

This publication focuses on the work councils can undertake to improve vaccine uptake.

This report was commissioned by the sector-led Care and Health Improvement Programme (CHIP), co-produced and delivered by the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) in England.

From 1 April 2013, responsibility for public health and other health services will be given to local agencies, including councils, clinical commissioning groups and the new health and wellbeing boards. Local Healthwatch will be the new local champion for health and social care.

A collection of essays on six years of public health in local government

This sets out the increasing contribution to society and the economy older people can make through empowered local government and challenges the commonly-held belief that an ageing population is a burden.

Building on positive feedback from the sector, the LGA commissioned a refresh of the risk awareness self-assessment tool in 2016; and is now offering councils (and system partners) the option of an external, independently facilitated workshop to undertake the self-assessment along with local senior system leaders.

We recommend regions continue to develop and integrate this approach with local sector-led improvement tools and that consideration is given to completing the self-assessment as part of a collaborative process with corporate colleagues.

For adult social care to thrive we need Government to act both for the here and now, and for the longer-term.

Adult social care is an absolutely vital public service that supports some of our most vulnerable people and promotes the wellbeing and independence of many more.

The adult social care funding and integration survey was conducted by the Local Government Association’s (LGA) Research and Information Team