News · 10 August 2023
New Cabinet Member for Adult Social Services appointed
Councillor Angela Coleman has been appointed as Cabinet Member for Adult Social Services at Liverpool City Council.
Social care
Blog · 25 May 2023
‘We will fix this’ – Council Leader’s pledge following publication of Ofsted report
New elected Council Leader, Cllr Liam Robinson, has written an open letter to the people of the city following the publication of an Ofsted report which has ranked Children’s Services as inadequate.
News · 25 May 2023
Children’s Services Ofsted inspection
Liverpool City Council has committed to tackling failings identified in an Ofsted inspection of its Children’s Services department, which has ranked the service as ‘inadequate’ overall.
Uncategorized · 19 May 2023
Ofsted praise ‘lifeline’ children’s facility
A short break service for children with complex needs and disabilities in Liverpool, described as a ‘lifeline’ by parents, has been praised in its recent inspection by Ofsted.
News · 20 March 2023
UK’s first Kinship Carers Charter is launched
LIVERPOOL has become the first area in the country to launch a charter setting out how it will support kinship carers. The Kinship Charter Liverpool has been written by Kinship Carers Liverpool in partnership with Liverpool City Council with both carers, children and young people sharing their experiences to develop the framework. Kinship carers look
News · 28 February 2023
“It’s about helping people to live the best life that they can, independently and for as long as possible” – Transforming Adult Social Care in Liverpool
Corporate Director for Adult Social Care, Health and Homelessness, Anne Marie Lubanski, writes about the city's plans to transform adult social care...
News · 10 January 2023
A project that’s making a “wheel” difference
Tune into BBC iPlayer to see one of Liverpool’s incredible community projects on the small screen. Toxteth’s Cycle of Life project was the subject of this week’s We Are England, broadcast on Monday 9 January, on BBC One, which also features a council-funded initiative. Cycle of Life was founded by Ibe Hayter in 2020 with
News · 22 September 2022
Children in care’s artwork to be displayed
CHILDREN in care who entered an art competition earlier this year are getting ready to see professional recreations of their work. The Stand By Me art competition, organised by Liverpool City Council’s Fostering Service, asked children and young people to create artworks showing the people in their lives who stand by them. Now local artist
News · 14 April 2022
BLOG: The true spirit of people in Liverpool – warm, generous and willing to reach out to help those in need
Cabinet member for children's social care, Cllr Frazer Lake, reflects on the caring spirit of people in Liverpool and our urgent need for more foster carers.
News · 25 November 2021
BLOG: ‘The opportunity to contribute to the journey is not one I’d let pass by’ – interim Director of Adult Social Care on being part of the council
Maggie Kufeldt is the interim Director of Adult Services, she explains here why she was attracted to the role, and why she wants to be an advocate for change at Liverpool City Council.
News · 16 November 2021
Find out about Liverpool’s dementia services
IS someone you love living with dementia? Have you received a diagnosis yourself? Then you’re invited to find out more about the condition and what support is available at a special event this weekend. On Saturday, 20 November, Liverpool City Council’s Sedgemoor specialist dementia day service will be hosting a number of organisations and services
News · 10 November 2021
Liverpool 5G Create has a double award-winning digital formula
Digital health and social care project Liverpool 5G Create is celebrating double wins this week. The project, funded by the Department for Media and Sport’s 5G Testbed and Trials Programme, scooped the Tech for Good award at the recent Prolific North Tech Awards and also took home the Connecting People award at the Cambridge Wireless
Blog · 5 November 2021
BLOG: “We’re giving people a renewed sense of purpose”
For national Occupational Therapy (OT Week, we’re shining a light on the important work Liverpool City Council’s OT staff do, helping many of our residents. Here, on of our OTs Craig Taylor blogs on removing barriers to improving people’s health… This year Occupational Therapists will be promoting health equity across the country, but what is health equity?
News · 26 October 2021
New director of adult social care appointed
Liverpool City Council is set to welcome a new director of Adult Services and Health. Anne Marie Lubanski will come to Liverpool from Rotherham Borough Council and will take up the role, which oversees homelessness as well as adult social care, in the new year. In Rotherham, Ms Lubanski is the strategic director of Adult
Social care · 24 June 2021
Care home staff urged to get their vaccine ahead of planned changes
Staff who work in Liverpool’s care homes – who have not yet been vaccinated against Covid-19 – are being urged to get their jabs as soon as possible. It follows an announcement that vaccinations are to become compulsory for staff at English care homes, for those who provide nursing or personal work for elderly or
Blog · 18 May 2021
BLOG: “When one in three of us could have dementia, our home city needs to be a place that helps and allows all of us to live well “
Jack Coutts, co-ordinator for the Liverpool City Region’s Dementia Action Week events programme, sets out what a dementia friendly Liverpool would look like and why it matters. What people with dementia need – and increasingly demand – is that the world which is shaped and run with the fit and able in mind, should also
News · 13 May 2021
Councils unite for Dementia Action Week
NEXT WEEK all six councils in the Liverpool City Region are joining together for the first time to mark Dementia Action Week. From 17-23 May, the local authorities from Liverpool, Wirral, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens and Halton will be offering an impressive range of mainly online activities as part of the annual national awareness week
News · 26 March 2021
Can you Step up to Social Work?
Liverpool City Council is supporting the national Step up to Social Work initiative that gives graduates of other subjects the chance to re-train for this rewarding career. This intensive 14-month full-time paid programme will see successful candidates working with the council to gain hands-on experience whilst studying at university. The programme: • Offers a £19,833
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