Almost £40m has been set aside by councils in two-tier areas to prepare local government reorganisations proposals this year.

The government has rejected plans for the future of two Local Government Pension Scheme pools and told their partner funds to ...

From planning reform to local government reorganisation, since its election last July the new government has unveiled a whole ...

Creating new unitary councils could disrupt some of the biggest social care systems in the country, writes an independent ...

Salford City Council is set to appoint Stephen Young as permanent chief executive. Mr Young has been chief at Halton BC since ...

Districts that are well run are right to feel “peeved” about local government reorganisation, the Conservative candidate to be mayor of Cambridgeshire ...

The Local Audit Office will appoint auditors to local authorities, inspect the quality of local audit, and escalate issues to ...

Hampshire CC, Dorset Council and Croydon LBC have all made changes to their senior teams. Katharine Hammond, who has ...

At a time when money is in short supply, the ministry finds itself with a huge programme of legislation and implementation, ...

ADCS’s new president Rachael Wardell tells LGC why an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted inspection sparked her move from regulator to ...

The government has this afternoon published details of the first integrated settlements for the West Midlands and Greater ...

West of England Combined Authority Mayor Dan Norris has been released on conditional bail following his arrest on suspicion ...