Minister Jim McMahon has suggested escalating Croydon LBC’s statutory intervention to a commissioner-led model to ensure it ...

Local authorities will be forced to increase council tax and make further cuts despite ‘positive’ funding commitments in ...

Government has confirmed a funding boost to support the installation of 100,000 new local electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints.

Councils will have to wait until the autumn for details of reforms to services for children with Special Educational Needs ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced a £39bn investment in social and affordable housing over the next 10 years in the ...

Dudley council chiefs will next week discuss multi-million-pound improvement proposals for town centre regeneration projects.

According to the Financial Times, areas such as Newcastle, Blackpool South and Stockport will benefit from the funding boost ...

The Chancellor has backed a fair pay agreement for social care workers in a Spending Review that failed to address many of ...

The Treasury has announced reforms to guidance that provides a framework for how public sector organisations evaluate ...

Cllr Arooj Shah, chair of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said: ‘We must the end the adversarial nature of the ...

Health, defence and schools were the winners in the spending review, but the government claimed it would put local government ...

A new report by two Labour MPs has estimated that defence companies have lost out on £30m in investment because of council ...