We?re working with people from across the city to try to reduce health inequalities in Nottingham. Our new Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy sets out our plan to improve healthy life expectancy by tackling the main causes of poor health, such as smoking, obesity and deprivation.

Health inequalities are affected by the conditions in which people are born, grow up, live, work and age, as well as factors such as age, gender, ethnicity and where a person lives. Overall, the health of people in Nottingham is generally worse than the England average.

We are committed to working with everyone to improve the life chances of people in our city. You can read the Nottingham Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (2022-2025) at www.healthynottingham.co.uk.

Yesterday at our Executive Board meeting, we agreed to implement all recommendations made in two reports we commissioned to look at the misallocation of housing funds. This includes returning misallocated funds to the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) which is for the benefit of our tenants and bringing Nottingham City Homes back to be managed by the council.

This is a serious matter where the new leadership and senior management of the council have shown determination to take the swift and firm action needed to address these past issues and move forward positively.

Bringing NCH in-house is about being able to provide reassurance to ourselves, our tenants, the Assurance and Improvement Board and the Government that these governance and financial failures cannot happened again. It will allow greater accountability for the use of rent payers? money and to retain services under the democratic control of the council. Find out more here

We still have cases of Covid-19 locally and nationally. The best defence against the virus is to get vaccinated. It?s not too late to get your first, second or one of your booster jabs. You can use the following link to book a venue/day/time to suit you: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination. Please do everything you can to protect yourself from Covid-19.

From today until Monday 400+ cities around the world will be taking part in an epic challenge to try and collect as many wildlife recordings as possible. From a garden to a park to a river - every record taken helps conservation efforts across the country and informs plans for tackling the ecological emergency nationwide.

The Nottingham entry is led by the Wildlife in the City Team - focussing on 'Hidden Nature' this year. Find out about Local events

You don?t have to be an expert to take part - simply download the free iNaturalist app, take a photo of the nature you find, whether that?s a tree, plant or animal, and upload.?Read more

Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating in Nottingham on Monday. I want to wish our local Muslim community a joyful Eid-al-Fitr.

This year Eid coincides with a bank holiday and I?d like to wish all a very happy and restful long weekend and my thanks to those who are working over the festive and bank holiday period to deliver services to Nottingham.

If you?re interested in fashion don?t miss the Fashanne live awards show at St Mary?s Church, Nottingham on Thursday May 5^th. This impressive event celebrates the fashion design talent of our next generation, featuring a spectacular catwalk show and showcasing some of the most innovative and exciting fashion ideas from the next generation of designer talent. Costumes will be modelled by celebrities including Paralympian Richard Whitehead MBE, the inspirational Sian Lord and social media star Cheddar Gorgeous, with the designs judged by the legendary Patrick Grant. The show will also feature circus themed entertainment, food and drink, and will be raising money for Rainbows, the children?s and young people?s hospice, with an exclusive Paul Smith bag to be raffled off. To get tickets for ?the fashion event of the year? please visit Fashanne.com.