Two local authorities and a hotel are opposing Home Office plans for asylum seeker accommodation in their districts. Protests ...

Financial insecurity is causing “low morale and emotional stress” among some councillors, a report to Birmingham City Council ...

Warrington MBC deputy chief executive Lynton Green has announced his exit from local government after almost four decades ...

It’s going to get a lot more noisy up in Westminster as Conservative heavy hitter James Cleverly has taken up the mantle of ...

A defeated Reform UK candidate has launched a High Court challenge to overturn what she claims was a “fraudulent” result ...

By shying away from bold financial reforms the government risks fixing yesterday’s problems instead of tomorrow’s, writes LGC ...

NHS England missed local authority leaders off emails about hospital discharge policy during the Covid pandemic, the former ...

Lancashire CC’s Reform UK leader has criticised the council for taking on multi-million pound investments, some of which will ...

A "crisis in our democratic system" is on the cards unless the mounting pressure on the electoral process is addressed, a ...

MPs are calling on the government to undertake an urgent review of the current council tax system – dismissing the link ...

Just three years after their creation as a means to improve collaboration between health and local government, integrated ...

A new lead commissioner has been appointed to help tackle Birmingham’s ongoing financial crisis following the immediate ...