The government has launched a new campaign to remind public of importance of continuing healthy behaviours to reduce the spread of coronavirus.

Keir Starmer has launched Labour’s Safer Communities campaign with a pledge to crack down on anti-social behaviour.

The government has launched a new multi-million pound strategy to speed up diagnosis and improve support and care for autistic people.

England's chief medical officer has said that a new national strategy is needed to tackle poor health and lower life expectancy in seaside towns.

Adult social care leaders have come together to offer a collective vision of what should be in a workforce strategy for the growing sector.

The Prime Minister has announced an additional £50 million in grassroots football pitches, prioritised for left-behind communities.

A coalition of health and education experts have committed to making mental health and wellbeing a central part of education recovery plans.

New guidance to help local authorities to plan, design and deliver high quality walking and cycling routes across Wales has been launched.

Decreasing local government funding over recent years probably contributed to declines in life expectancy in some areas of England.

The National Food Strategy has suggested that sugar and salt should be taxed and vegetables prescribed by the NHS.

More than half a million people are now registered with asthma in London and two-thirds of sufferers say their condition is made worse by poor air quality.

Many frontline social care workers are undervalued in comparison to their peers in equivalent positions in other public funded sectors.

Further plans announced to reduce the national default speed limit in Wales from 30mph to 20mph on residential roads and busy pedestrian streets.

The LGA has warned that girls and young women are being deliberately and increasingly recruited into drug-dealing ‘county lines’ gangs.

The government has announced that a new drugs unit will be set up to help end illegal drug-related illness and deaths.

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