England's largest councils are poised to raise council tax and cut services such as adult social care and school transport in ...

Three metro mayors plan to increase their mayoral precept next year with one planning to freeze its rate, LGC analysis can ...

The three unions representing local government staff have asked for a £3,000 pay rise for all employees for 2025-26 in their submission to the National ...

Hackney's chief executive Dawn Carter-McDonald on her journey to the top job, the London housing crisis and dealing with a ...

The government does not know how much recent local government reorganisation has cost and its evidence for further restructuring is “not remotely up to ...

With Essex expected to join the devolution and reorganisation priority programme, LGC's head of content and resident Essex ...

The government will review its decision making for public investment to ensure no regions miss out, the chancellor announced ...

Robin Porter, chief executive of Luton BC, has resigned after seventeen years with the council, citing a desire to spend more ...

Harlow DC is set to appoint a permanent managing director alongside three executive directors as part of a restructure of the ...

Two districts have publicly opposed the inclusion of one unitary ahead of a meeting for potential members of a Thames Valley ...

Two Conservative MPs have backed a Lib Dem district leader's call for a ministerial meeting to discuss concerns over ...

The system that emerges from reorganisation will be unfit to inherit the name ‘local government’, write the emeritus ...