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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Senior government officials told MPs that higher prices suppliers would charge councils had been taken into consideration ...