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Must Know: Treatment and recovery for people with drug or alcohol problems thumbnail

Must Know: Treatment and recovery for people with drug or alcohol problems

As elected members, you are ideally placed to champion investment into reducing drug and alcohol harm in your local area, engaging the local community and collaborating with officers. The purpose of this guide is to raise awareness about drug and alcohol related harms and empower councillors.

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Must know: tobacco control

Must know: tobacco control

Comprehensive tobacco control is the best thing a local authority can do for public health.

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Must Know: Long Covid

Must Know: Long COVID - What is the role of local government?

Data from the Office for National Statistics has suggested 3 to 12 per cent of adults infected with coronavirus have symptoms 12 weeks after an initial infection. Our Must Know explains how councils are working to provide support.

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Must Know: Healthy weight

Is your council using the National Child Measurement Programme to promote healthy weight? The purpose of this ‘Must Know’ is to understand the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) and how it is used locally to support local planning.

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Meeting the public health needs of the armed forces: a resource for local authorities and health professionals COVER

Meeting the public health needs of the armed forces

This resource has been developed for local authorities, local Defence Medical Services and those supporting the health needs of the armed forces community in England.

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Meeting the health and wellbeing needs of young carers

Meeting the health and wellbeing needs of young carers

Being a carer takes its toll on a young persons education, physical health and emotional wellbeing. What can councils do to tackle these inequalities?

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Maintaining our momentum: public health in local government

Maintaining our momentum: Public health in local government

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the transfer of public health from primary care trusts to local government. We speak to key figures closest to the reforms on what they think has worked well, what can be improved on and learnings to take forward for the future.

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Maintaining our momentum essays on four years of public health

Maintaining our momentum essays on four years of public health

A collection of essays on 'four years of public health'.

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Loneliness, social isolation and COVID-19 COVER

Loneliness, social isolation and COVID-19: practical advice

The LGA and ADPH have jointly produced this practical advice for Directors of Public Health and others leading the response to the loneliness and social isolation issues arising from COVID-19.

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Loneliness and Covid

Loneliness, social isolation and COVID-19

The Local Government Association (LGA) and Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) have jointly produced this practical advice for Directors of Public Health and others leading the local response to the loneliness and social isolation issues arising from the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Make It Local

To deliver priorities for the public the Government needs to #MakeItLocal

Make It Local

By the start of 2025, we will have had a general election. This is a moment of opportunity.

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