As we re-enter a difficult period of rising COVID-19 infections, it’s a good time to look back at what lessons we can learn from the first wave of coronavirus for the delivery of services to vulnerable children and families.
The new Domestic Abuse Act 2021 legally recognises children as victims. We now need to make sure that this translates into meaningful change in the way we support these children.
For someone working in conservation, the pandemic – with its close links to the destruction of our natural environment – can prompt despair at the years of ignored warnings.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been well documented as having significant detrimental effects on mental health and wellbeing, particularly for residents in vulnerable groups.
Just before lockdown in March, we were due to consider a motion on approving the Councils for Fair Tax Declaration. We wanted Trafford to be an early endorser of a growing movement that is standing up for responsible corporation tax conduct.
We are working more from home and, sorry to say, for longer periods of time.
We saw the Prime Minister announce in October the new three-tier system, under which every area of the country will be classified as ‘medium’, ‘high’ or ‘very high’ risk during the continuing COVID-19 crisis.
The failure to permit councils to continue holding online meetings is difficult to understand and impossible to excuse.
In the past two years, Lewisham Council has supported Renewing the Covenant in the Capital, a Ministry of Defence project which has helped local authorities across London to audit and improve their service offer to the armed forces community.
This is the year self-build and custom house building will scale up.