High standards are vital but a new regime must only intervene in democratic mandates as a last resort, writes deputy editor ...

Unions have accused Devon CC of threatening to “fire and rehire” more than 800 staff if they do not agree to the removal of a ...

Ministers have renamed the previous government’s £1.5bn Long Term Plan for Towns as the Plan for Neighbourhoods, and are ...

Staffordshire CC is proposing creating a county-wide unitary that would join a mayoral strategic authority alongside the ...

The government has denied that it deliberately misled parliament over delays to local elections due to reorganisation. During ...

The social media site is no longer the right platform, or an effective one, for the council to communicate on, writes the ...

Unnecessary parochialism and pettiness” is holding local government back from “empowerment” through the mayoral combined ...

No region should feel compelled to host an event highlighting how unfairly it has been treated compared to the rest of the ...

The shadow local government secretary has told the Convention of the North that the region needs to “get better at asking” ...

Two mets in Greater Manchester have been awarded £20m each by the government to support local regeneration under a rebadged ...

The head of Police Pensions has been announced as the new head of pensions at the Local Government Association. Clair Alcock ...

Three Local Government Pension Scheme pools plan to seek authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rather than ...