Barking and Dagenham Council leader Darren Rodwell has been removed from the list of candidates being considered by the ...

One in four local councils in England spent 5% of their core budgets on temporary accommodation in 2022-23, new research has ...

A DNA test has confirmed that a baby found abandoned in a shopping bag in Newham is biologically related to two other babies ...

In the first of our NextGov series, Andy Smith, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS), ...

The historic county hall used by Westmorland and Furness Council as the local authority’s headquarters is set to close for ...

Blackpool Council has welcomed the lifting of a government directive requiring the local authority to improve its children’s ...

Using community power to tackle polarisation requires ‘going deeper and deeper until some of the falsehoods clear out’, New ...

The Liberal Democrats have pledged to make free personal care available at home for older or disabled people if they win the ...

Colin Gray, principal consultant at SAS UK, looks at the role of tackling fraud when it comes to helping local authorities ...

Image: Monster Ztudio / Shutterstock.com. The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for powers and funding so that ...

Council staff and members often live ‘in fear of abuse, assault or worse,’ experts have warned. A study by the Association ...

Derbyshire County Council and Derby City Council are formerly in dispute over a £94m bill for a share in a waste treatment facility. Last year, the councils decided to fix and operate a waste ...