News · 4 June 2020
Liverpool is bidding to become one of the first UK cities to be a Child Friendly City, in partnership with Unicef UK. The council recently held a virtual Q&A session which gave young people the chance to hear first-hand about the local response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and discuss their thoughts with key decision makers,
News · 3 June 2020
If you’re going back to school, follow the rules… That’s the message from Liverpool City Council as pupils return to the classroom in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
This week some schools have re-opened to accept the children of key workers and vulnerable residents, who had previously used the city’s Childcare Hubs.
News · 3 June 2020
A special £4m fund is to be established to pay for a vast network of temporary cycle lanes in Liverpool.
News · 2 June 2020
LIVERPOOL City council has thanked a community initiative for ensuring that over 1,600 families received a boost to their kitchen cupboards during the pandemic. Positive about Play, led by Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services (LCVS) and Merseyside Play Action Council (MPAC), has distributed funding to 35 play schemes in the city which have given out
Blog · 31 May 2020
COVID-19 changed lives overnight. Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson believes it is a catalyst for bold action to change the way the city lives in the future… The pain, suffering and the grief we have shared over the last few months has been hard for us all to witness and most of us will have
Community · 30 May 2020
Mums across Merseyside have been discovering some unexpected benefits of lockdown. It has meant that many women have found protected time to breastfeed due to fewer visitors, and more time at home.. It comes as Merseyside marks National Breastfeeding Week from Monday 1 June with a series of events organised by breastfeeding support workers across
News · 28 May 2020
The new NHS Test and Trace service has launched across England.
News · 28 May 2020
The 2021 Special Olympics GB National Summer Games, scheduled to take place in Liverpool next August 2021, are to be postponed. The difficult decision was made by the 2021 National Summer Games Board after careful consideration of the ever-changing Covid-19 situation and in full consultation with a wide range of key stakeholders including the Special
News · 28 May 2020
TWELVE brand new arts commissions by Culture Liverpool will show how female artists from across the world have responded creatively to the Covid-19 pandemic. In a special online legacy project, forming part of the city’s RISE season – which pays homage to extraordinary women across the globe – the brand new micro-commissions will provide a
News · 27 May 2020
Could you pick out a Poppy or spot a blooming Buttercup? Whatever the answer, if you want to see all those wildflowers and more in their stunning full-colour glory then look no further than Liverpool’s main roads and major routes this summer. It’s all part of the Liverpool Wildflower Gateways Project, which is a partnership between Liverpool City Council, the National Wildflower Centre at the Eden Project and is bringing a riot of colour to sites across the city.
News · 26 May 2020
Three city leaders have come together to talk about how Liverpool will re-emerge from lockdown. Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson, Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool Professor Dame Janet Beer and Chief Executive of Liverpool BID Bill Addy have spoken openly and optimistically about the future of Liverpool in the latest Mersey Waves podcast
Liverpool · 26 May 2020
Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson is today announcing a new £450,000 project to help reimagine spaces in Liverpool in an outdoor European style. Working with Liverpool BID Company – which supports 1,500 businesses in the city centre – and the Chamber of Commerce, as well as with a collection of creatives and designers, the fund
Covid-19 · 22 May 2020
Mayor Joe Anderson is welcoming news that Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has begun recruiting frontline health and social care workers to take part in a COVID-19 vaccine trial. Due to the expertise of LSTM’s Respiratory Clinical Research Group, and working in collaboration with the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), the Liverpool University Hospitals
News · 21 May 2020
Liverpool has just become cleaner and greener thanks to the installation of a ‘living greenwall’ on the exterior of St Johns Shopping Centre. Spanning 65 metres in length, the living green wall is one of the longest in the UK and hasbeen installed as part of a project which seeks to increase green space in
Covid-19 · 21 May 2020
Public health officials in Liverpool are advising smokers to quit to reduce the risks of severe symptoms if they get COVID-19. They are joining calls from the Chief Medical Officer and Public Health England with the message: there has never been a more important time for local smokers to quit, to protect themselves and others.
News · 20 May 2020
Liverpool’s large-item household waste collection service will re-start on Tuesday 26 May after being suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak.
News · 19 May 2020
The operator of Liverpool’s 30 James Street Hotel has today been ordered to pay a £60,000 penalty after pleading guilty to four breaches of food safety and hygiene regulations in Liverpool Crown Court. A £34,000 fine (plus £26,877 in costs) results from inspections made in March and September 2018 by Liverpool City Council’s environmental health team,
Community · 19 May 2020
Liverpool’s most famous ship has been given a stunning multi-coloured makeover as a special salute to all those heroic key-workers who are helping the city through the coronavirus outbreak.
News · 19 May 2020
The ACC Liverpool event campus is currently being used as a logistical distribution hub, supporting Liverpool City Council’s efforts to ensure the most vulnerable people within the city are supported during the coronavirus outbreak. The operation is being led by the local authority in the city and is expected to continue for the duration of
News · 19 May 2020
National government has asked child care providers including childminders to begin to welcome children back from the 1st June 2020. Each child care provider will need to individually determine when their setting should re-open or, where a setting is already open, how the setting should incrementally increases the number of children attending. Any decision needs to
