The government announced today that £68m would be distributed to 54 councils to develop abandoned brownfield sites into new ...

A new commission will help rethink the approach to social care, writes the chair of Essex CC’s Caring Communities Commission ...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is pausing inspections of integrated care systems (ICSs) for six months following the ...

Districts are concerned they will have too few planners to support the government’s ambitions for a huge expansion of ...

The government will not be able to meet its goals without stabilising the "extremely fragile financial state" of local ...

Councils are calling for major financial reforms – but it’s not yet certain they’ll avoid further funding cuts, writes LGC ...

Labour's National Executive Committee has stepped in at Tameside MBC after the chief executive and senior politicians quit ...

The government should talk to council pension funds when drawing up plans for the future of the scheme, writes the chairman ...

Norfolk CC says it will be having “ongoing discussions” with the government about what the next steps for devolution could be ...

Newham LBC has requested exceptional financial support from the government due to temporary accommodation housing pressures ...

Brighton & Hove City Council has been accused of trying to "cover up equal pay claims rather than negotiate settlements," by ...

Plans to renationalise the railways provide an opportunity to increase local say over public transport, writes writes the ...