Council bosses have urged the Government to ensure local authorities receive the full costs for delivering waste and ...

Young people who had lived near a Sure Start centre between the age of 0 to 4-years-old were 20% less likely to have a custodial sentence, think-tank finds.

Slough Council is facing an extension to Government intervention due to ‘volatility' in its finances. Local government ...

Joe Fyans, head of research at Localis, looks at what local government needs to hear from the Chancellor in the Autumn ...

Jeremy Newmark, finance spokesperson for District Councils’ Network (DCN), argues that properly funded councils are essential ...

The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned it is ‘very likely' there will be ‘significant' audit fee variations as the ...

Former leader of Essex CC and peer Lord Hanningfield has died. In 2010, Hanningfield was charged with offences related to the ...

West Northamptonshire Council has asked staff to consider voluntary redundancy, flexible retirement and reduced working hours ...

Chippenham Town Council has announced it will leave social media platform X amid ‘a significant increase in unfiltered and ...

Councils in England and Wales have failed to spend over £8bn of section 106 and Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) money, ...

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has promised a 10-Year Plan for social care that will run alongside the 10-Year Plan for the NHS.

Dozens of England’s largest councils face ‘financial emergency’ if their multi-billion pound deficits for special needs ...