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Residents' satisfaction with councils decreases

By Dan Peters | 19 September 2017

Residents’ satisfaction with their council has ‘significantly decreased,’ Local Government Associ...

Union suspends industrial action in Birmingham bin dispute

By Dan Peters | 19 September 2017

Trade union Unite has suspended industrial action involving refuse workers after the High Court o...

Liverpool chief Ged Fitzgerald suspended

By Dan Peters | 18 September 2017

Liverpool City Council has launched an independent disciplinary investigation into its chief exec...

Lib Dems fight for post-Grenfell action

By Dan Peters | 18 September 2017

The effective ‘privatisation’ of building control has led to a watering down of fire safety check...

Name and shame threat hangs over councils

By Dan Peters | 15 September 2017

Councils that fail to get business rates relief schemes in place by the beginning of next month c...

Councils told number of homes they should build

By Dan Peters | 14 September 2017

The Government has told councils the number of homes it thinks they need to deliver every year as...

Jones: Government fully committed to rates retention

By Dan Peters | 14 September 2017

Local government minister Marcus Jones has insisted the Government is ‘still fully committed to p...

A new hope for children's services?

By Dan Peters | 13 September 2017

At a crucial and at times troubling period for children’s services, and with new Ofsted leadershi...

Rotherham wins back more control

By Dan Peters | 13 September 2017

Rotherham MBC has won back democratic control of all functions apart from children’s social care,...

LGA tells Javid where he must spend extra rates cash

By Dan Peters | 13 September 2017

The Local Government Association (LGA) has told communities secretary Sajid Javid how it thinks e...