To suggest there is significant waste left to cut in local government ignores reality, and the transparency with which ...

The minister has said areas should submit one document outlining proposals for local government reorganisation as it revealed ...

Profiteering, funding and increasing the number of high quality children’s homes are also needed, writes the president of the ...

Sector figures have warned that large unitaries supported by neighbourhood committees would be "insufficient" to meet the ...

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened an investigation into alleged fraud committed against Thurrock Council by Rockfire ...

Just 21% of council figures say their authority is better off as a result of Labour’s actions since entering government last ...

Mid Sussex DC has launched a legal challenge over the Planning Inspectorate’s “ill-founded” dismissal of its local plan. The ...

A failure to grasp this opportunity will only further entrench fragmentation and frustration, writes the president of the ...

Six Labour mayors have urged the government to grant them devolved powers to implement a visitor levy in a bid to boost ...

Next month’s spending review could "make or break" county and unitary authority budgets without an injection of funding, the ...

The government has given the LGPS much of the certainty it has asked for – but whether it will deliver what ministers want is ...

The council’s success was built on sustained capacity, institutional knowledge and the political will to think big and act ...