Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has pleaded for help from other local authorities ahead of the upcoming arrival ...

Defra's decision to top up funding for flood defences by £250m raises spending in this area to record levels but is still ...

The Government's approach to distributing compensation to councils for higher National Insurance Contribution bills has been ...

Forty-two local authorities – or one in 10 – are considering cuts to waste collection services, new data reveals.

The failure to tackle the children's mental health crisis costs the UK over £1tn in lifetime lost earnings, researchers ...

Local government reorganisation is the process of changing the structure, functions and responsibilities of councils.

The number of households on social housing waiting lists in England could top two million by 2034, property experts have ...

Wokingham Borough Council has been ordered to pay a mother £2,600 after it failed to meet her son’s special educational needs ...

Leo Hanna, executive vice president UK at TechnologyOne, looks at what the UK can learn from Australia when it comes to using ...

Ministers have been warned against overreach with the creation of the Local Audit Office (LAO). Sector experts voiced ...

Council leaders have warned council tax increases place ‘more financial burden on households’ without fixing the long-term pressures facing local government.

Strikes by more than 350 Birmingham bin workers will ‘intensify’ over the next two months, trade union Unite has announced.