Council leaders have paid tribute to the ‘extraordinary’ community work carried out by volunteers from North Somerset Together throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
Cllr John Crockford-Hawley.
- Credit: North Somerset Council
North Somerset Council has had to find new ways to keep vital services running during the pandemic - with meetings held online and staff and councillors working from home.
While many of the council’s operating procedures will resume when we emerge from the pandemic, some changes could be here to stay.
John Crockford-Hawley, councillor for Weston Hillside, spoke to the Mercury about the ups and downs of homeworking and how Weston has the opportunity to reinvent itself after the pandemic.
He said: “One of the things that I have found working at home, is that you don’t get the essential camaraderie that you would get going into the office and bouncing ideas off one another.
North Somerset Council leader Don Davies and deputy leader Mike Bell.
- Credit: Archant
There is much positive news on our fight against the pandemic, vaccination is happening apace and we thank all those working to deliver that protection.
Further, due to all your hard work in sticking to the rules, our rates of infection in North Somerset have peaked and are beginning to fall too.
However, probably because of the more infectious variant, the rate of this fall is still quite slow.
Getting that infection rate down is key to taking pressures off our NHS until we can get much higher immunity into our population via vaccination.
Why North Somerset will have its own covid track and trace system
The scheme will support the existing NHS Test and Trace system
12:20, 22 JAN 2021
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North Somerset Council is to set up its own track and trace system - to support the national effort to bring down Covid case numbers.