Two local authorities and a hotel are opposing Home Office plans for asylum seeker accommodation in their districts. Protests ...

Financial insecurity is causing “low morale and emotional stress” among some councillors, a report to Birmingham City Council ...

A council leader has issued an urgent plea to recoup £17m which his authority has spent on housing refugees who have been granted asylum. Hillingdon LBC ...

Warrington MBC deputy chief executive Lynton Green has announced his exit from local government after almost four decades ...

NHS England missed local authority leaders off emails about hospital discharge policy during the Covid pandemic, the former ...

By shying away from bold financial reforms the government risks fixing yesterday’s problems instead of tomorrow’s, writes LGC ...

Exclusive LGC research has analysed allowance levels at all upper tier local authorities. Scroll down to view our interactive ...

A defeated Reform UK candidate has launched a High Court challenge to overturn what she claims was a “fraudulent” result ...

When Clair Alcock stepped into a new role heading up the statutory body that oversees the £400bn Local Government Pension Scheme, she was under no ...

Local government employee representatives and the trade unions Unison and GMB have agreed a 3.2 per cent pay rise for chief ...

MPs are calling on the government to undertake an urgent review of the current council tax system – dismissing the link ...

A new lead commissioner has been appointed to help tackle Birmingham’s ongoing financial crisis following the immediate ...