A new lead commissioner has been appointed to help tackle Birmingham’s ongoing financial crisis following the immediate ...

Nineteen year-old Reform UK’s George Finch has been elected to run Warwickshire County Council. Cllr Finch, who is believed ...

The government has ruled out helping council pension funds that have to move to a new pool with the “significant” costs of ...

MPs are calling on the government to undertake an urgent review of the current council tax system – dismissing the link between taxes paid and the quality ...

Lancashire CC’s Reform UK leader has criticised the council for taking on multi-million pound investments, some of which will ...

Essex’s work with public, private and voluntary sector partners is enabling significant strides towards its clean energy ...

The devolution bill offers a “real risk” of moving powers up from local councils rather than down from Whitehall, warn two former ministers. Former ...

A "crisis in our democratic system" is on the cards unless the mounting pressure on the electoral process is addressed, a ...

The abolition of the committee system should not remove the space for slow, deliberative decision making, writes the chief ...

Former Broxbourne BC leader Lewis Cocking, who swapped the council chamber for the Commons last year, shares his concerns over the barriers to becoming a ...

Just three years after their creation as a means to improve collaboration between health and local government, integrated ...

A recent LGC roundtable, held in partnership with Norse Group, discussed the potential for local government reorganisation to provide an opportunity to ...