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
News · 19 March 2020
Liverpool’s Health and Wellbeing Board meeting on coronavirus finished as the city begins a partial shutdown including public buildings like libraries and leisure centres to temporarily shut or introduce restricted opening times. Liverpool Health and Wellbeing Board – Thursday, 19th March, 2020 2.00 p.m Venue: Council Chamber – Town Hall, High Street, Liverpool 1 Agenda and
Housing · 24 February 2020
A Liverpool landlord has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 for allowing a tenant to live in a dangerous, unlicensed property. John William Kildare, of Eldred Road in Childwall, failed to comply with an Improvement Notice issued by Liverpool City Council, as well as failing to apply for a licence. The house, on
News · 24 February 2020
A patient is being treated in the specialist NHS infection centre at the Royal Liverpool Hospital for coronavirus. They are one of four patients transferred from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan who have tested positive. The others are being treated at other centres in Sheffield and Newcastle. Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson said:
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
Arts & Events · 9 January 2020
Liverpool will be bringing in the Year of the Rat in style with celebrations set to take place in the heart of Europe’s oldest Chinatown. On Sunday 26 January, the Chinese New Year festivities will see traditional Chinese culture blended with modern performances to create must-see street, stage and music acts, aerial demonstrations, family workshops,
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 · 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
