The Local Government Association (LGA) is to look into the scale of the burden of members having to sign off salary packages ...

Minister Alison McGovern has raised ‘significant concerns’ about Somerset Council’s financial position in a letter responding to its request for support.

Work has started on a review of the national pay scale used to determine salaries for most council employees in England, ...

IJBs have reached a critical point in Scotland with a significant risk they will become financially unsustainable, according ...

Care England has called on the Government to exclude adult social care premises from the High Value Council Tax Surcharge, known as the ‘Mansion Tax.’ ...

The transfer of powers from Westminster to the newly created Cheshire and Warrington Combined Authority has been formally confirmed.

Local leaders in Manchester have expressed ‘deep concern’ after two men carrying a bag containing weapons walked into ...

The John Lewis Partnership has withdrawn from its Build to Rent business that pledged to provide 1,000 rental homes in ...

Members of Birmingham City Council have failed to reach agreement at the authority’s annual budget meeting, where the Labour ...

The civic head of Shetland Islands Council has been disqualified from acting as a company director after her pub business failed to pay over £170,000 in taxes.

The deputy leader of Lancashire County Council has apologised after sharing a Facebook post which said a Labour MP ‘should be shot’.

Uncertainty surrounds local government reorganisation (LGR) in Essex, with one leader branding the process ‘over' and little ...