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Communities Versus COVID How Labour Local Government Took on Coronavirus Contents communities versus COVID HOW LABOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT TOOK ON CORONAVIRUS Contents Foreword, Cllr Nick Forbes 1 Covid timeline 2 Celebrating our councils and communities , Cllr Anntoinette Bramble 6 Covid heroes 7 Covid innovations 12 Adult social care, Cllr Paulette Hamilton 18 How Bradford managed their Covid-19 response, Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe 20 Everyone In – building a better Bristol, Mayor Marvin Rees 22 Local Government Finance, Cllr Richard Watts 24 The zoom where it happens, Cllr Alice Perry 26 Putting public health at the heart of Transport and Air Quality, Cllr Arlene Ainsley 28 Supporting businesses throughout the pandemic, Cllr Shaun Davies 30 Foreword Cllr Nick Forbes Leader of Newcastle City Council and Leader of the LGA Labour Group No-one could have predicted that 2020 was There’s lots that both local government and the year when our world was turned upside central government can and should learn from down. Still sore from our Party’s recent General the pandemic. The response to the pandemic has Election defeat, 12 months ago my biggest worry been most successful when it has been locally led. in Newcastle was how we would continue to The Government’s test and trace system has not deliver on priorities such as climate change and been sensitive to local needs and dynamics – many building more council houses with yet another Tory Labour councils have consequently set up their own Government in Westminster. But within months test and trace systems that are more personal, with we were gripped with the impact of the global council staff knocking on doors, telling residents coronavirus pandemic, the country locked down that they need to isolate and finding out what and dealing with the loss of many friends and support they need. As a result, contact tracing loved ones. People were frightened, not just for systems run by local authorities have a 97% success themselves and their families but because it was rate – compared to a dismal 70% for the national apparent early on that the Government completely contact tracing system. This is just one example failed to understand the devastating impact that of how we have adapted and improvised throughout, Covid-19 would have on the country. coming together as a Labour local government family to share ideas and encourage each other At the start of the pandemic Labour councils were in the absence of any assistance nationally. quick to respond to these new challenges. Priorities changed overnight – with councils working hard Looking ahead, the pandemic has also highlighted to mitigate the situation that was emerging in care the structural and financial weaknesses of local homes at the time, sourcing PPE for front line workers government in the UK. Covid came after 10 years where the government had failed to do so, and of crippling austerity, and the Tories reneged on working with local voluntary organisations to support their promises to support councils properly through residents who had been asked to shield themselves. the crisis. But local leadership, bringing partners together, reassuring communities and supporting As the months went by, we dealt with further those most vulnerable, has never been more challenges, such as how to protect our high streets important. If there is one big lesson from 2020, and local hospitality sectors, how to work round it is that we need to see a significant shift in power the Government’s centralised and privatised test and resources from national to local government and trace system and how to work with residents to make our country more resilient for the future. to suppress a second wave. And over the last few months we’ve had to deal with ever changing This publication showcases the best of Labour local restrictions, from the rule of six, to the Tier system, government over the last 12 months – from profiles to a second lockdown, back to a different Tier system of Covid heroes, to innovations by Labour councils, and to a third lockdown. Mass community testing and and articles looking at the different aspects of the the rollout of the vaccine present fresh challenges, Covid-19 pandemic. Through adversity, it shows and our local economies will need our significant Labour in local government at its finest - leading and sustained support if they are to recover. and delivering for our communities. 1 COVID timeline 2020/21 January March First two confirmed UK cases SAGE suggests the government of coronavirus. issue advice that people should A UK lockdown NOT shake hands. The same day Boris Johnson tells a press conference: is announced: “From this evening I must February give the British people “I was at a hospital a very simple instruction - the other night where you must stay at home.” SAGE advises I think there were a few says Boris Johnson. coronavirus patients the government that and I shook hands with restricting activities Ministers provide assurances that everybody, you will outside the household the government would provide be pleased to know, and would delay the peak of “whatever funding is needed for I continue to shake hands”. councils to get through this and the coronavirus outbreak come out the other side”, a promise by up to five weeks and later repeated by Robert Jenrick. reduce overall cases by In response to widespread concern The government about lack of PPE supply the announces it will end Government announces that they 50-60% the mass community will set up a new ‘Amazon-style’ testing programme PPE distribution service with health The number of confirmed despite advice from the World minister Jo Churchill MP later stating Health Organization that it was cases rises to 23 by the end the system would come online vital. The next day they reverse in the next few days’. By July, this of the month. the decision. service still does not exist. By the end of March, 1,408 people have died of coronavirus and there are over Modellers at Imperial College London find the UK will be 22,000 overwhelmed by the coronavirus confirmed cases. outbreak and 250,000 people will die unless social distancing protocols are put in place. Boris Johnson contracts coronavirus and is later hospitalised. 2 COVID timeline 2020/21 April May The government admits that none of the 17.5 million coronavirus Communities Boris Johnson urges antibody tests it has bought work. secretary Robert people who are unable Jenrick backtracks Frustrated by the government’s on his earlier promise to work from home failure to provide adequate PPE to support councils to do to go back to their jobs, for care workers, many councils are ‘whatever it takes’ to fight while maintaining forced to procure their own supplies. coronavirus, telling MPs that Labour councils in Yorkshire, led councils should not “labour under social distancing. by Bradford, charter their own flight a false impression” that all costs to bring PPE in from China. would be reimbursed, provoking widespread anger amongst local The Local Government Association Councils call on government government leaders and MPs. says that the failure of national ministers to involve local government government to share vital and in plans to track and trace coronavirus, up-to-date data with councils and stressing that any national system other agencies is hampering efforts must be complemented by existing to contain local outbreaks. local knowledge and skills on the Councils again plead ground, including Directors of Public Health. The Government instead to be involved in the Boris Johnson makes the catastrophic decision Test and Trace system, waves away Labour to outsource Test and Trace to the pointing out that ‘there pleas to exempt private sector at a cost of £12bn. are some areas in different NHS staff from the communities where an immigration surcharge, saying it would raise money. The next Matt Hancock app simply cannot reach’. day he backs down. announces that the The government ignores Department of Health the calls. is developing it’s own contact tracing app, rejecting an offer from Apple and Google to By the end of May over use their technology. Two months later, he admits the app will be The government abandoned as it does not work. is plunged into crisis 38,000 over the behaviour people have died from coronavirus in the UK. By the end of April, the UK has of senior adviser surpassed Italy to become the Dominic Cummings, country with the highest declared who breached lockdown death toll in Europe, with more than 26,000 fatalities. measures during a trip to Durham. 3 Timeline 3 COVID timeline 2020/21 June July September The R value, which Latest figures reveal Councils estimate their measures the virus’s ability to spread, rises that the coronavirus costs to have R above 1 across the UK hit £ 6.1 bn by 31st July. for the first time since early March prompting fears of a second wave £12 bn of the virus. outsourced Test and Trace Emergency funding from government system is failing to reach to date is just £3.7bn, leaving an one third of people unfunded gap of at least £2.4bn – Three months later than a gap that rises to over £7bn by who have tested positive the end of the year. promised, the government for COVID-19. releases its new contact tracing app. The developers later admitted The Organisation for August Economic Cooperation the app had not been able and Development to link more than 60,000 predicts that Britain will suffer more On A-level results coronavirus tests carried £economic damage than any other day teachers have out in England - a third country in the developed world. almost 40% of their A-level assessments of the total - to its systems.
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