Waste reforms will generate billions in investment but councils will need to help educate the public about the benefits, the ...

A regional mayor is urging the government to allow more flexibility in housing spending in a bid to tackle the area’s ongoing ...

There was a some rare positivity for government policy at the major investment conference in Leeds this week. But you didn't ...

The government’s ambition to reorganise all two-tier areas into unitary councils can be delivered during this parliament, the ...

Local government’s longest serving chief executive is to retire later this year, LGC has learned. John Sinnott, who has been ...

Housing targets are not helpful because councils are already "juggling" targets for other services, a council leader said ...

New spatial development strategies must be considered alongside plans for growth and infrastructure or risk becoming a ...

Dozens of organisations have joined forces to call for “significant new funding” for social care in the upcoming spending ...

Certainty over funding might be the only thing we can look forward to in next month’s Spending Review, writes Jonathan Werran ...

The number of “twin hat” directors with statutory responsibility for both adult and children’s social services has fallen to ...

Birmingham City Council and the government have rejected a trade union’s claim that talks aimed at resolving the ongoing ...

Over three quarters of planning committee members surveyed said the government’s 1.5 million homes target is “unachievable,” ...