Dan Peters talks to leading local government figures to assess whether directly-elected mayors ar...
New directly elected mayors could take over the role of police and crime commissioners (PCCs), ho...
South Staffordshire has gone the extra mile to ensure local growth and guarantee authority is wel...
Three senior posts could be axed at Redbridge LBC less than three years after the last major revi...
The idea of councils being allowed to impose a tourist levy to help plug funding gaps has been re...
Liverpool’s elected mayor has accused the Tories of ‘kicking the shit’ out of local government an...
Ministers have threatened the highest spending town councils with the prospect of being forced to...
Government moves away from sector-led improvement in children’s services have been criticised day...
Councils have called for a change in the law to allow them to be full members of more than one co...
The proportion of concerns about public safety in local government dealt with by a whistleblowing...
