Publications

Obesity places high demands on social care and exerts significant pressures on costs and resources, yet it is often overlooked.

The number of obese people in England has been rising steadily for the best part of 20 years. Today one in four adults are obese, according to the Health Survey for England, compared to 15 per cent in 1993. Read the discussion paper here.

The LGA in collaboration with NHS Digital is grant funding digital innovation in social care, with projects ranging from new assistive technology to data analytics to predict demand. Apply now for the third wave of the programme – deadline to apply is 7 March 2019.

The Information Centre for Health and Social care collect an annual return of local government social care staffing - the SSDS001.

The examples and case studies detailed in this report express the opportunities for health improvement and what has already been achieved.

We have worked with the Chartered Institute for Public Finance Accountants and other key partners to develop a tool to support health and care systems with understanding and progressing their financial arrangements for integrated health and social care services.

This self-assessment tool is designed to support local health and care leaders through health and wellbeing boards (HWBs).

This guide aims to provide an overview of four key enablers that support health and social care systems to collaboratively plan and commission effective support, at a strategic level.

This briefing offers support to those who have duties to commission and arrange advocacy services and to the advocacy sector in its delivery, including in defining both advocacy and Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP).

This sector-led improvement programme is an opportunity for councils and their partners to access leading expertise, learn from one another and share good practice.