Payments to private companies for public assets have exceeded construction costs by over three times, research into PFI ...

Guildford BC's senior management were ‘unaware’ of a multi-million-pound overspend but should have noticed a series of ‘red ...

Council chiefs have welcomed Government moves to give councils powers to suspend councillors found to have breached their code of conduct.

The deputy leader of North Yorkshire Council has accused the Government of ‘rural robbery’ over a reduction in funding and raised the spectre of legal action.

Oxfordshire County Council has committed £6.2m each year for the next 10 years to a pooled budget for mental health services.

Local government minister Jim McMahon has sent three envoys in to improve Tower Hamlets LBC following last year's Best Value ...