Over three quarters of councils plan to raise council tax by the maximum allowed without a referendum, according to LGC's latest research. LGC’s latest ...

Women should not be forced to make the difficult choice between career, children and service to their communities, writes the former Labour party regional ...

Birmingham City Council has agreed its budget after the Labour administration backed amendments from the Liberal Democrat group. Last week the budget ...

Councils have voiced their frustration towards the government’s overreliance on exceptional financial support (EFS) after a ...

Local Government Pension Scheme practitioners operate in a time of profound change replete with challenges but also ...

Central government has introduced flexible voting pilot orders for certain local authorities in the upcoming May elections.

Local government may be at its “financially weakest” sector figures have said, with the Local Government Association warning that use of exceptional ...

The Cumbria Combined Authority (CCA) and the Cheshire & Warrington Combined Authority have been officially created this week, ...

Ali Griffin, chief executive of London Councils, has been granted the Freedom of the City of London award. The award, which ...

The government has announced £50m to tackle homelessness and aims to halve long-term rough sleeping by 2029. This is the next ...

Some mega police forces are likely to cover two or three mayoralities, writes the chief executive of Wyre Forest DC.

A Labour MP  has urged the government to "pause and reconsider the evidence base" for local government reorganisation Crawley ...