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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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.
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 … Read more
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.
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 … Read more
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: … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more