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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The built-in assumption in the provisional financial settlement that councils will raise their council tax rates by the full ...