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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

One in four English councils believe they will have to apply for exceptional financial support (EFS) in the next two years ...

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

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