From the evidence on show at last week's LGC summit, local government's most senior officers are impatient for radical change ...

Without extra funding local authorities may struggle to get the same positive results as those councils involved in piloting children's social care ...

JVT tells LGC councils ‘did the hard yards’ during covid but their public health role is undermined by financial crisis If it is possible to say that an ...

Changes to the employer National Insurance Contributions is set to cost the adult social care sector more than £900m next year, according to analysis by the Nuffield Trust. The think tank has ...

The pressures on councils due to the rising costs of providing transport to school for young people are “far too urgent” to ...

The impact of the government’s ambitious plans to reform children’s social care will be limited without extra funding, sector ...

Hastings BC  has appointed Robert Cottrill as its interim chief executive on a shared basis with Lewes DC and Eastbourne BC.

The government has pledged to “crack down on care providers making excessive profit”  in children’s social care reforms ...

Pothole compensation claims to local authorities more than doubled last year, a report from RAC reveals. According to freedom ...

Housing minister Matthew Pennycook failed to provide assurance that the government's pledge to build 1.5 million homes over ...

Woking BC still faces “lots of obstacles” the local government minister said, in response the third report from government ...

The government has confirmed that commissioners will stay in place at Slough BC for a further two years. The intervention at ...