Stratford-on-Avon District Council has adopted the two unitary authority model as its preferred option for local government ...

Council leaders representing the historic cities of Bath and Cambridge have jointly called for the power to introduce a ...

Only 9% of councils have sufficient holiday childcare places for at least 75% of children with special educational needs and ...

Cheshire and Warrington councils have requested that the area’s potential mayoral election be deferred by a year to reduce ...

West, LGIU, discusses the Local Government Outcomes Framework (LGOF), the latest instalment in the history of local ...

Ten communities across England are set to be visited by ‘innovation squads’ as part of a £100m pilot to improve local ...

Council employers have unanimously reaffirmed their April offer of a 3.2% pay increase as ‘full and final' despite unions ...

Councils fear a repeat of last summer's riots without ‘significant government investment in community cohesion', a report has ...

The movement is supported by Labour MPs, including Andrew Pakes and Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, and seeks to ...

Only one in five rural local authorities have planning targets for building new social homes despite a shortage of new houses ...

A proposal by Reading BC to bring five West Berkshire wards under its jurisdiction as part of local government reorganisation ...

An employee who was simultaneously employed by two local authorities and a third organisation has been found guilty of fraud ...