The Local Government Association plans to reduce the number of full-time equivalent positions with a six-figure salary, ...

Nearly half of councils eligible to request the cancellation of this year’s elections have asked to do so, LGC analysis has ...

Protests against asylum seekers are “still a real live issue” for local authorities, the new executive director of the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Local government finance experts  have said the provisional finance settlement is "a lot harder to understand this year", ...

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

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