Healthier lives for children and adults · 5 April 2024
A pioneering floating ecosystem, designed to enhance marine life and biodiversity at Liverpool’s Wapping Dock, has had its own lifespan extended until 2028. Installed in 2020 as a collaboration between the Canal & River Trust and Liverpool City Council on their EU funded Urban GreenUp programme, the floating island is a 63m2 saltwater ecosystem. While the surface
News · 4 April 2024
Parents of young children – we want to hear about the childcare that you need. In 2024, there are several changes being introduced nationally that will expand the funded childcare offer for working parents of young children as well as parents of children who are at primary school. So that the council, schools and providers
Healthier lives for children and adults · 3 April 2024
Liverpool City Council is seeking to award grants of up to £50,000 to third sector organisations to provide support to victims of domestic abuse who have a housing need.
public health · 21 March 2024
Liverpool City Council has now disposed of over 15,000 illegal vapes at an estimated total value of over £180,000, as the Council’s operations targeting the sale of these devices continue at pace. In addition to the 10 shops that have been forced to close for selling the dangerous products, a further 18 shop owners have
News · 4 March 2024
Liverpool City Council’s Public Health team has played a key role in devising a new multi-media marketing campaign across England to remind parents and carers to get their children vaccinated against serious diseases.
News · 22 February 2024
Together with the National Youth Agency, Liverpool City Council is undertaking a comprehensive review of youth provision across the city. Involving young people and their parents and carers is crucial to understanding how the council and its partners should shape youth services in the future. We have two brief surveys that are currently open to
News · 21 February 2024
Eleven organisations have been given thousands of pounds in funding to deliver youth engagement projects in Garston. At an event at The Academy of St Nicholas, schoolchildren from the Academy and five local primary schools (St Austin’s, Garston CE, Banks Road, Gilmour Juniors and Holy Trinity) decided who should win the share of £31,000, made
News · 21 February 2024
Liverpool’s Director of Public Health, Professor Matt Ashton, on why you should protect your loved ones against measles, which is one of the most infectious diseases in the world. There is a large outbreak in Birmingham and Coventry mainly affecting children under 10 years old. Many children have now been admitted to hospital. Liverpool has
Healthier lives for children and adults · 16 February 2024
With measles cases on the rise, thousands of school children aged 6 -11 years are being invited to attend appointments to be vaccinated against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR).
Healthier lives for children and adults · 14 February 2024
Professor Louise Kenny CBE is Executive Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool. Louise - who is also a medical doctor, was a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist from 2006-2018. In this blog, she recounts her experience of treating a young boy who caught measles when he was a baby and sadly did not survive.
News · 8 February 2024
February is Heart Health month in the UK, and Liverpool will welcome the Pumping Marvellous Foundation to the city for a Heart Health Event in Williamson Square on Thursday 15 February.
Healthier lives for children and adults · 7 February 2024
Liverpool’s Director of Public Health, Professor Matt Ashton, writes about the importance of getting the MMR vaccine to protect against measles.
Healthier lives for children and adults · 2 February 2024
A series of events are taking place in Liverpool to help make it as easy as possible for people to be tested for HIV.
Healthier lives for children and adults · 2 February 2024
Liverpool City Council is to work with the private rented sector to help reduce the amount of money spent supporting families facing homelessness.
News · 1 February 2024
Do you want to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people in Liverpool? We’re currently recruiting residential workers for a new children’s home and we would love to hear from you! We’ve invested significantly to develop our own children’s homes and the first of these is set to open soon.
Healthier lives for children and adults · 31 January 2024
Patients will be able to get treatment for seven common conditions through their high street pharmacy from today, as part of a major transformation in the way the NHS delivers care.
Healthier lives for children and adults · 29 January 2024
Public Health leaders in Liverpool are welcoming an announcement from the Government that it is introducing new powers to tackle vapes and cut smoking.
Blog · 29 January 2024
Liverpool’s Director of Public Health, Professor Matt Ashton, on why you should protect your loved ones against measles, which is one of the most infectious diseases in the world.
News · 26 January 2024
Liverpool City Council is holding a consultation on its equality objectives and wants people who live or work in the city to have their say.
Healthier lives for children and adults · 23 January 2024
Ofsted has found that Children’s Services in Liverpool are “laying strong foundations to enable the necessary improvements to be made” and working with “determination and pace” following an inadequate inspection judgement last May.
