Social care should be free at the end of life, the health select committee has said.
Local authorities in Wales will have £100m more funding in 2015/16 than their counterparts in Eng...
Finance is among the departments that two councils have agreed to combine as part of an expanded ...
Buckinghamshire CC's chief executive has pledged to secure a good rating for its children's servi...
A watch list of councils financially at risk could be drawn up after watchdogs warned the Governm...
An inquiry into how councils can improve their scrutiny of Better Care Fund (BCF) plans has been ...
County councils have highlighted the ‘hidden’ issue of funding the transition from children to ad...
Officers at Portsmouth City Council (PCC) have ‘often felt under pressure to write reports that t...
A local government lawyer has warned that councils could be exposed to legal challenges when the ...
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has said he is ‘minded’ to direct Hackney, Newham and Waltham ...
