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"More needs to be done to make adult social care a rewarding and fulfilling career and it is right that the workforce is going to be one of the pillars of the forthcoming green paper on care and support for older people."

"It is positive that the Government has listened to the views of local communities on local development corporations."

Cllr Linda Thomas, Vice Chair of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, responds to a report by the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation on an increase in emergency hospital readmissions.

“The availability of quality home care services are key to supporting people’s independence at home and in the communities they know and love. It is therefore a significant concern that these services are currently so fragile because of the acute funding pressures on the system"

“The fact that nearly a quarter of a million more people attended A&E between January and March this year than in 2017, and the NHS provider sector reported a near £1 billion deficit at the end of 2017/18, is extremely worrying.“

Cllr Linda Thomas, Vice Chair of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, responds to quarterly figures on teenage pregnancies in England and Wales, published today by the Office for National Statistics.

“Continued access to these EU wide databases is of vital importance and the Government and the European Union must ensure that it is maintained.”

“Councils are committed to ensuring that everyone should be able to live within their communities with the right support and continue to work in partnership with the NHS and provider organisations to move people from long-stay institutions to community settings."

The number of 10 and 11-year-old children classed as severely obese - the most overweight scale - in the final year of primary school is nearly double that of those in reception, new analysis by the Local Government Association reveals today.

Shoppers are being warned about buying highly toxic skin lightening creams from a booming illegal market in cosmetics.