Thurrock Council has been given the go ahead to recruit its own chief executive, almost three years after a ...

The chief executive of the Local Government Association Joanna Killian is taking unexpected leave for personal reasons amid ...

Health improvement should be a core test of devolution, write the assistant director, healthy lives team, at the Health ...

The government’s homelessness strategy needs to go further to address the increasing use of temporary accommodation and the ...

Councils may be forced to compete for new funding from the warm homes grant, after a government minister refused to give a ...

After 14 years and £1m invested in each of 150 areas, Big Local offers a blueprint for the future of civic life, writes the ...

The number of homes a council can build before they have to open a housing revenue account will be increased to 1,000 as part of a government bid to boost social housing.

There has long been a perception of local government as a stepping stone or training ground for national office, writes Phil ...

A small number of councils are planning to either freeze council tax or increase it by less than the maximum amount in ...

Almost three quarters of councillors are concerned workloads will become unmanageable following local government ...

Some councils are urning to institutional investors while others are looking at new leasing arrangements to address their temporary accommodation bills.

Most of the councils where elections have been cancelled for this year are Labour authorities, according to LGC analysis.