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Wrexham Council’s head of environment, John Bradbury, is retiring after 50 years with the authority.

Alan Wood, director of children’s services for Hackney LBC, will become the new president of ADCS...

Law firm Trowers & Hamlins is this month establishing a dedicated public sector commercial team.

Local authorities should be prepared to use referendums to test public support for making difficu...

Despite his deprived town’s economy losing £100m from welfare changes alone on top of £70m cuts s...

After four years of austerity we are still nowhere near seeing the light at the end of the tunnel...

Chancellor George Osborne has taken a long view about the public finances in his Budget, a former...

The economy may be on the mend but there is little evidence of any let-up in public spending cuts...

A school project in Scotland, which has reduced teenage pregnancies by half, has won a top prize ...

Plymouth City Council has appointed Kelechi Nnoaham as the authority’s new director of public hea...