Kent CC chief executive Amanda Beer has instructed council officers to "remain apolitical" amid controversy over a proposed ...

Councils involved in a ‘vanguard’ programme to boost housing hope it will enable them to create the tools and conditions to ...

Councils must continue to create a trusted positive narrative that helps reduce the impact of false information, writes the ...

The English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill will hand the communities secretary power to compel local government ...

The Reform UK leader of Kent CC has revealed potential savings of £40m in her first full council speech. Linden Kemkaran used ...

Plans for the national Local Audit Office has been set out in the English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill. If the ...

Trade union Unite has voted to suspend Angela Rayner's membership over her role in the Birmingham bin strike. More than 800 ...

The government has set out plans to grant mayors extra powers to intervene in decisions currently made by local authorities.

The communities secretary will get a new power to devolve further functions to the Greater London Authority to mitigate the ...

Some of those who have been through local government reorganisation and lived to tell the tale shared their advice at last ...

Ministers have warned Tower Hamlets LBC that if they are not satisfied with progress then statutory intervention could ...

Tameside MBC has named Emma Alexander as its new chief executive after a turbulent year at the authority. This comes nine ...