A think tank has urged the Government to boost social care funding by £1.5bn to support a £2,000 pay rise for care workers.

Unite has launched a campaign calling for an overhaul of how local authorities are funded to prevent further bankruptcies and ...

A council has been ordered to pay a woman more than £3,000 in compensation for charging her unaffordable rent while she was ...

Blackpool Council has been working with Blackpool Transport Services to get the trams up and running again after they were ...

The £392bn local government pension scheme should be harnessed to address the UK’s underinvestment in affordable and social ...

Local authority leaders have offered condolences after the deaths of two firefighters and a member of the public in a fire at ...

Local authorities should ringfence a proportion of their supported housing units for women released from prison, a new report ...

A package of reforms to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) is set to end discrimination and boost maternity leave, ...

Multi-billion pound debts remain a point of contention in reorganisation negotiations as the deadline passed for the first of ...

Councils are bucking the trend with spending on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), figures from the British Chambers ...

A plan for two new unitary authorities in Surrey is based on ‘inconsistent, incomplete and flawed data’, opposition ...

A judge has ruled in favour of a campaigner who took legal action against Lambeth Council to stop it allowing the use of a ...