Solace has responded to the Government’s consultation on how to prevent, diagnose, treat and manage the six major groups of health conditions that most affect the population in England. You can read Solace’s submission by clicking this link.

The Hewitt Review is considering how the oversight and governance of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) can best enable them to succeed, balancing greater autonomy and robust accountability. Solace is committed to strengthening the ways in which local authorities and the NHS work together. It is only through genuine partnership working that we will be able […]

Solace welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Department for Education and Department for Health and Social Care’s SEND Review: right support, right place, right time. To read our full response, please click the download button.

Solace has submitted evidence to the House of Lords Public Services Committee’s inquiry in to ‘Designing a public services workforce fit for the future’. Click this link to read our submission.

Solace welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Scottish Government’s Consultation on the National Care Service (NCS). To read our full response, please click the download button.

Solace has prepared a substantive response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on a National Care Service, which is appended to this Executive Summary. This Executive Summary is designed to be an easily consumable representation of the key messages Solace wishes to share with the Scottish Government about its proposals.

In Solace’s submission to the 2021 Spending Review, we set out three key asks: 1. Address as a matter of urgency the workforce crisis affecting the local public sector; 2. Invest significantly in social infrastructure, with a specific focus on prevention and early intervention initiatives; 3. Provide local government with a truly sustainable multi-year funding […]

To have a strong public health system, which protects the public and improves people’s life chances, the whole system must be underpinned by a truly sustainable multi-year financial settlement for local government which allows councils to lead on population health and the NHS on treating illness.

This submission is based on the views of Solace’s Policy Board, which consists of 26 serving local authority chief executives and senior managers.

This Spending Review is crucial for the short and long-term future of this country as it responds to, and recovers from, the Coronavirus crisis, and prepares for its future outside the European Union. Ensuring local government is sustainably funded will be vital if the country is to successfully overcome these many challenges.

Solace has urged the Government to use the upcoming Budget and Spending Review to provide councils with a truly sustainable multi-year settlement and limit the amount of new funding it distributes through one-off pots. Click through to read the full submission.

Solace Consultation Response: Restricting Exit Payments in the Public Sector July 2019

Solace (Wales) is opposed to these regulations and supports the call for Government to accept that these regulations should not be progressed further due to the unfair and negative impact this will have on the local government workforce and the sector’s ability to continue to effectively manage change down-sizing and restructuring within the sector.

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Submission on the 2015 Spending Review.

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