Blog · 20 February 2020
Food banks are sadly becoming an important – and vital – part of our communities in Liverpool. For the next 12 months, Liverpool City Council’s Communications team will be shining a spotlight on the most used food bank in our city. We want to chronicle the daily reality for thousands of men, women and children
Blog · 31 January 2020
Food banks are sadly becoming an important - and vital - part of our communities. We want to chronicle the daily reality for thousands of men, women and children across Liverpool.
Blog · 29 January 2020
In Britain, when we talk of female leaders and female leadership we often think of Tory politicians or our nation’s longest serving monarch. Our earliest story books often served up tales of feisty women who ruled the age or were revered in their time. But why then do so many women feel that they can’t
Blog · 17 January 2020
Jennifer Bruce — video journalist, Liverpool City Council Not sending your child to school every day? Unfortunately, you’re not the only one. And it all adds up. Massively. Every year in Liverpool, more than 500,000 school days are lost to absenteeism, and almost half of those are unauthorised. Quantitatively this means we’re below the national average for school
Blog · 17 January 2020
A look at what lies ahead for Liverpool’s taxi trade in 2020 Kevin Johnson, Liverpool Council’s City Manager If 20 years ago you’d have said to your cabbie, soon you’ll be driving around in electric cars, you’d have probably have been met with a healthy degree of scepticism. You might have got the old suspicious glance
Blog · 14 January 2020
Liverpool playwright, BAFTA and International Emmy Award winning screenwriter, Helen Blakeman, shares her story from childhood dreams to international success. Liverpool is a city of writers, especially for screen. But being a writer is not what I grew up thinking that I could become. In fact, age 5, when asked what I wanted to be
Blog · 6 December 2019
Why cleaning up the air matters to Liverpool “For the past couple of months I have been immersed in the world of air pollution and clean air planning, finding out about the work that has been done by the city council to measure the quality of air in the city and look at the possible
Blog · 10 October 2019
Earlier this year, Liverpool City Council’s Director of Adult Services Martin Farran shared his personal mental health story on how his son Joey’s eating disorder affected him and his family. For World Mental Health Day, we caught up with Martin’s son Joey, to hear his side of things. Joey Farran “I’ve spent a long time
Blog · 9 October 2019
A delegation from Liverpool will be in the city of London next week sharing all the latest exciting plans and developments that are taking place across the city. MIPM UK is a great example of private-public partnership. Two of the delegates representing Liverpool will be the new Liverpool MIPM chair Stephen Cowperthwaite and Liverpool City Council’s
Blog · 8 October 2019
Liverpool City Council is showing its commitment to helping to protect vulnerable residents and service users from the flu, by embarking on a programme to administer vaccinations to 500 staff who work on the frontline in social care, or who provide essential services. Flu Vaccine Overview Clinics started last week, ahead of the launch of
Blog · 3 October 2019
Our communications manager, Michael Doran, shares the power of poetry… Shakespeare. Milton. Keats. Wordsworth. Coleridge. Yeats. Shelley. Byron. McGough. Henri. Patten. Carroll. Burns. Heaney. When you think of poems, it’s often one of the greats whose wordplay will most readily spring to mind. Not me. My first real brush with the power of poetry was
Blog · 2 October 2019
With a global reputation for musical excellence spanning more than a century, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the city’s most celebrated cultural institutions. But away from sell-out concerts and award-winning arrangements, the Liverpool Phil is building a reputation for harnessing the power of music for an altogether different purpose. Supported by an annual
Blog · 1 October 2019
(By John Ashton and Zara Quigg — First appeared in The BMJ) At a time of Brexit induced policy paralysis, it seems that only one matter can break through the news headlines. Daily reports of murders and injuries caused by rising knife crime in London and the other cities in the UK have galvanised a call for
Blog · 25 September 2019
Nina Lloyd-Jones, Liverpool City Council Staff Green Champion Liverpool City Council has recently launched a staff Green Champions scheme to make sure the organisation is driving the Climate Change agenda from the inside. We hear from one Green Champion, Nina Lloyd-Jones, about how recycling can become part of your every day life. As many of you will
Blog · 22 September 2019
In Britain, when we talk of female leaders and female leadership we often think of Tory politicians or our nation’s longest serving monarch. Our earliest story books often served up tales of feisty women who ruled the age or were revered in their time. But why then do so many women feel that they can’t
Blog · 20 September 2019
Just over two months ago I was asked by the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, if I would take on the newly created ‘Environment and Sustainability’ portfolio in Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet. Liverpool was about to declare a ‘Climate Emergency’ (on 17 July) and Mayor Anderson had created the new post in the cabinet to
Blog · 11 September 2019
Keith Marshall, Licensing and Regulatory Enforcement Officer for LCC Keith Marshall, Licensing and Regulatory Enforcement Officer, was working in St George’s Hall 10 years ago, when staff were invited to have their blood pressure taken during a health initiative. “I remember thinking I’d get mine checked for a bit of a laugh. I didn’t have any
Blog · 28 June 2019
Crowds flocked to Sefton Park for Africa Oye Festival 2019 ©Mark McNulty Liverpool has outdone itself again. The Saturday of this year’s Africa Oye Festival was the busiest day we’ve ever had in Sefton Park. The outpouring of love during the weekend and in these last few days from the audience and from those who performed
Blog · 17 May 2019
Sally Laws teaches mindfulness for the Adult Learning Service. She shares her tips for living a more ‘mindful’ life. “I started my career as an Occupational Therapist working in Mental Health services in prisons. The job was highly stressful and you would see upsetting and distressing things on a daily basis. It was just expected
Blog · 16 May 2019
Dr Sandra Davies is our Director of Public Health. Four years ago she lost her beloved brother to cancer. “Kevin was fifty-four when he died, so still quite young. We knew he was ill, so in many ways him dying wasn’t a shock. Except you never prepare for losing someone you love, so it did come
