Increasing pressures on monitoring officers and the "exodus" of senior staff means more peer support is needed. Rachel McKoy, ...

In this episode of The Local Authority, the podcast from LGC, we explore what can be done to alleviate the situation and ...

The government can take three practical steps to embed prevention at the heart of reform, writes the policy manager, ...

Potential prime ministers talked devolution at the Institute for Government’s annual conference, writes deputy editor.

Reform UK has gained 21 councillors in the latest wave of defections announced this morning, reaching a total of 963. The ...

Rochdale MBC chief executive James Binks has resigned after less than a year in the role. Mr Binks was appointed to replace ...

Unite has written to Birmingham City Council accusing lead commissioner Tony McArdle and managing director Joanne Roney of ...

Northumberland CC won the economic development category at the LGC Award 2025. Cambois, Blyth Datacentre Campus Project ...

Councils have raised concerns about how the Department for Transport produced ratings for its pothole map over the weekend ...

Housing minister Matthew Pennycook has confirmed that the selection of the first new towns will be revealed in the "coming ...

Ministers from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government took questions from MPs on a range of topics yesterday ...

After the first multi-year provisional settlement in a decade, you would have expected some sense that long-standing demands ...