The government has ruled out helping council pension funds that have to move to a new pool with the “significant” costs of ...

Essex’s work with public, private and voluntary sector partners is enabling significant strides towards its clean energy ...

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

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

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

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

The devolution bill offers a “real risk” of moving powers up from local councils rather than down from Whitehall, warn two former ministers. Former ...

The abolition of the committee system should not remove the space for slow, deliberative decision making, writes the chief ...

All six areas involved in the devolution priority programme have met the tests to establish combined authorities next year, ...

Thurrock Council will put forward its own local government reorganisation business case, after concluding that the two other ...

Commissioners have been appointed to tackle Croydon LBC despite authority’s mayor called on the government to rethink its ...

Former Broxbourne BC leader Lewis Cocking, who swapped the council chamber for the Commons last year, shares his concerns over the barriers to becoming a ...