Whitehall inspectors could march into councils that refuse to engage with sector-led improvement ...
Social workers need to defeat the argument that jailing public servants for failing to protect ch...
A ‘rocky road’ stands in the way of the creation of more combined authorities, an academic has wa...
Councils have warned that further cuts will mean salami slicing will have to be replaced by axing...
Council chiefs have warned business rate reforms must not have a negative impact on local authori...
The appetite for devolving powers to coastal councils will be discussed by at least 28 senior off...
Scotland’s councils are approaching a financial black hole of around £1bn, new figures compiled b...
Labour’s John Biggs has become the directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets in a re-run of the ele...
Ministers have ‘no plans’ to reduce the number of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), the Depar...
The Government will deliver devolution at a ‘different pace and scale of ambition’ now it has a c...
