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Whether it is supporting stopping smoking, encouraging healthy eating, protecting good mental health, or delivering universal or targeted health visiting services or simply working closely with the NHS - councils have a significant role to play.

Self care is about giving people choice and control by helping them to decide how best to protect, maintain or improve their health and wellbeing.

Our support spans every step of the journey towards developing a fully integrated health and care system.

The examples in this report show what can be achieved by system leaders and staff from local government, the NHS, the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, and service user and carer groups working together to improve health and deliver person-centred care.

This briefing paper is based on work at two LGA/ Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) workshops in April/May 2018 on working with risk in the context of Making Safeguarding Personal.

The main green paper consultation launched on 31 July 2018 and closed in early October 2018. It posed a series of 30 questions across five main themes:

The case studies in this publication show the innovations that can be achieved by local areas collaborating within regions on health issues that can best be tackled at scale.

Our innovation and transformation offer outlines the programmes and improvement support we are offering to councils in 2018/19.

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

Drinking and drug problems remain, sadly, all too common. While alcohol consumption is falling, too many adults still regularly consume more than they should.