Case studies

An interview with Professor Ivan Browne, Director of Public Health, Leicester City Council.

An interview with Director of Public Health (Greater Lincolnshire) Professor Derek Ward

An interview with Jason Strelitz, Corporate Director for Adults and Health, London Borough of Newham.

An interview with Louise Wallace, Director of Public Health, North Yorkshire Council.

An interview with Professor Steve Maddern, Director of Public Health, Swindon Borough Council.

An interview with Stephen Gunther, Director of Public Health, Walsall Council.

By helping establish a new partnership with the local NHS and voluntary sector, Ribble Valley District Council has started championing healthy living and wellbeing in its rural communities. This case study shows how district councils have improved the health of their local areas.

There was a battery of instant analysis in the immediate aftermath of the riots in August, and central government peppered the airwaves with policy responses: evictions for people convicted of rioting, more help for so-called problem families, curfews and a strategy to tackle gang culture.

Summary Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council has commissioned housing charity Shelter to run a family intervention project (FIP) to reduce anti-social behaviour (ASB). Project workers intervene assertively with perpetrators' whole families to address the root causes, including mental health problems, thereby reducing the effect on victims.

One family's experience A single mother aged 47 and son aged 17. Referral was made to the project by Rochdale Borough wide Housing (the local ALMO)