Rising to the public health challenge of COVID-19

In this year's public health annual report - 'rising to the challenges of COVID-19' we focus on the key pressures and challenges facing local public health teams - the responses they have made and some of the dilemmas they have faced over an unprecedented twelve months.

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This year's public health annual report fulfils the important role of witnessing and recording some of the vast range of work done by councils with their partners across the various stages of the pandemic, and also look forward to our priorities for the future.

As previous annual reports have shown, over these eight years public health developed its approaches, widened its tasks, and established strong partnerships.

This has contributed to the solid foundation of experience, knowledge, skills and relationships on which the local pandemic response is based.

Only by proper public health funding, and by collaborating with local and national organisations, working with communities, will we see people have longer, healthier, happier lives.

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Public health annual report 2021: rising to the challenges of COVID-19

This report looks at what public health has helped to achieve and what could have been done better during COVID-19. It also looks to the future and the significant organisational changes ahead of us.

Forget What You Think You Know... podcast

Forget What You Think You Know is the LGA's new podcast show exploring social issues that are affecting communities in England on a day-to-day basis and what councils are doing to address them.

COVID-19: good council practice

Councils are doing remarkable work to address COVID-19, pooling resources, responding to new problems and coming up with creative solutions, including to recovery and renewal.