Lambeth Council has become the first London borough to bring all Covid-19 contact tracing inhouse in a new pilot scheme launched this week. The council has recruited and trained new teams of tracers to work with residents to quickly and effectively track contacts who may have been exposed to the virus. 

International Women’s Day is a worldwide celebration of everyone who identifies as a woman, a chance to engage in activities and reflect on women’s successes as well as the barriers and challenges we still face in society. This year International Women’s Day is on 8 March, so look out for events being held by local organisations and groups to celebrate and raise awareness; we have listed details of some events.

A prepared reading of the much loved classic Casablanca. the next SLT production: Lunch Girls by Ron Hart via Zoom 25-27 March, and more exciting courses for children and young people who have attended the SLTr drama classes or whose parents/carers are members. Read all about the latest SLT news here.

60 seconds. That’s the length of time the Office for National Statistics (ONS) had to capture a group portrait of the UK, ensuring it was representative of all ages, genders, ethnicities, sexualities, abilities, social classes, professions and geographies, and reflective of everything the census stands for. It also had to set the right tone.