Blog · 12 June 2020
For Carers Week, carer development worker, Chris Monaghan, has written a poem imagining the hopes, needs and frustrations of what a carer experiences every day, every week, every year. Making Carers Visible You wouldn’t recognise them in a crowd. They don’t really stand out. They don’t wear a uniform, or a badge or even a
Blog · 12 June 2020
Kerry Mallaby is a carers development worker at Liverpool Carers Centre, run by Local Solutions and commissioned by Liverpool City Council. The team supports carers across Liverpool with assessments, a health and wellbeing programme and access to breaks from their caring role through the Mytime initiative. During Carers Week, 8–14 June, Kerry explores how lockdown
Blog · 12 June 2020
Last year, 235 young carers in Liverpool were assessed by Barnardo’s Action With Young Carers or received support from them. Young carers look after a parent with a long-term condition and sometimes also younger siblings. Here, Aimee Hadwin, 18, explains what life is like for a young carer and how Barnardo’s have made a difference.
Blog · 5 May 2020
In all honesty, this is the most surreal time of my life. I have always been proud of the fact that I have played a role — a really small role — in this city’s cultural renaissance over the last twenty years. I was passionate about fighting for the voices of communities to be heard,
Blog · 29 April 2020
The Communications and Marketing team offers university undergraduates the chance to spend time in the team on work placement. Each student is asked to sum up their experiences and their observations of our organisation. Tilly Kenyon was the first through the doors this year. Hi, I’m Tilly and I’m a third year Journalism student studying
Blog · 29 April 2020
As part of National Apprenticeship Week, Rob Melling, Curtins CEO, shares his journey to the top. Curtins is a leading consultancy in the built environment, providing a diverse range of services including civil and structural engineering and other related expertise. 2020 marks sixty years since the company was established in Liverpool. CEO Rob Melling explains
Blog · 29 April 2020
Ed, 27, is four months into a two year Junior Content Producer Level 3 Apprenticeship. Through his apprenticeship, Ed will develop and create content that can be used across a variety of media platforms. Throughout his studies he will learn to research, prepare and develop media messaging to maximise audience engagement. Just five months ago
Blog · 29 April 2020
A lot of headlines have been generated recently about the UK’s 5G network, but amid the arguments about which tech firms should be allowed a stake, it would be very easy for all of that noise to overshadow the technology revolution that is currently taking place. Ann Williams is a Commissioning and Contract Manager at
Blog · 29 April 2020
By Susie Finlayson, Power to Change “If you were given the opportunity to develop ideas to support children, young people and families in your neighbourhood, and had just 100 days to bring those to life, what would you do?” That was the challenge recently set for three Liverpool communities, with support from Nesta, charitable trust
Blog · 29 April 2020
By Richard Jones, Head of Intelligence and Analytics at Liverpool City Council “Death. It’s something we try not to think about. We don’t really talk about it. It’s too depressing. Dying young is even worse. It’s painful, it’s difficult to get our heads around, it’s best not to talk about it.” Yet I think Liverpool
Blog · 28 April 2020
Lydia Fazakerley is a student at Edge Hill University and has spent the past four weeks gaining first hand experience in the Communications and Marketing Team. Lydia has told us what it’s like to live in a £1 house, one of Liverpool City Council’s innovative housing schemes. I haven’t lived in Anfield for long, 18
Blog · 28 April 2020
Paul Riley works in Children’s Services at Liverpool City Council, he is a staff Green Champion, and works with a number of environmental advocacy groups throughout the city. Here he writes about being a part of Transition Liverpool, an international movement of communities coming together to re-imagine and rebuild our world. Campaigners, journalists, politicians, charities
Blog · 28 April 2020
By day Sean Keyes is Managing Director at Sutcliffe, a multi disciplinary firm of Structural and Civil Engineers. By night he is a Liverpool primary school governor. This World Book Day (5 March) he shares his thoughts on why it’s so important we get our children (and grown-ups) reading more. As a young lad growing
Blog · 28 April 2020
For so many of us, this crisis feels like it is unfolding in slow motion. I am used to a world of major events where you make decisions quickly. You plan for everything in advance. You live off adrenaline and making choices based on trust in your team. But this crisis is not like the
Blog · 28 April 2020
Over the last few weeks we’ve all become experts, of varying degrees of knowledge, in infectious disease; specifically in COVID-19 which didn’t even exist last November. Now I’m not an expert, so the intention of this blog is to explain some of the key terminology that you may have heard, and give some insight into
Blog · 28 April 2020
After a five year stint in prison, 38-year old Chris Brown turned his life around — vowing to give something back to the city he loves… “My name is Christopher Brown. I am a father of three from Liverpool and the founder of Holiday Hunger, a community interest company. My business is feeding the most
Blog · 28 April 2020
The COVID-19 crisis — and resulting national lockdown — has gifted all of us with more time to spend at home. And what better way to relax and escape the stresses and strains of the world than by dipping into a book — says Councillor Barbara Murray, the brains behind Liverpool’s 2020 Year of Reading.
Blog · 28 April 2020
Pat Evans is a born and bred Scouser who’s been working with Liverpool City Council since September 1981. She started out in the Social Services Juvenile Court Section, before moving onto the Register Office five years later. Registering deaths is a big part of the day job and Covid-19 has brought with it new challenges
News · 1 April 2020
Liverpool’s new Director of Public Health officially begins the job today of keeping its 500,000 citizens healthy and happy - but he won’t be setting foot outside his house.
Photo Essay · 30 March 2020
As the nation comes to terms with the far-reaching implications of our cities, town and villages under near lockdown, staff at Liverpool City Council were working furiously behind the scenes to manage the impact of Covid-19 on its services and staff whilst ensuring children of key workers could get to school and that its most
