Councils in England will receive a share of £2bn additional funding next year under the provisional Local Government Finance ...

Oxfordshire County Council has become the first local authority in the UK to commit to negative carbon dioxide emissions for ...

Local authorities in England will receive the ‘largest ever’ cash injection into homelessness services next year, the ...

Cornwall Council could be made redundant in the run up to Christmas because of ‘chronic underfunding’ by the central ...

Public procurement experts Tussell find that local government spending with the Government’s ‘strategic suppliers’ has ...

The short-lived Office for Local Government (Oflog) will be closed by the end of the year, local government minister Jim ...

Council chiefs welcome Bill that could bring in new registers to identify children who are not in school but say it should go ...

Organisations working in social care have warned that without new funding the coming months will be ‘the most difficult we’ve ...

West, chief executive of the LGIU, reflects on the English Devolution White Paper and considers what councils will be asking ...

David Giles, chair of the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA), discusses the state of the local road system and what Labour ...

Former local government secretary Greg Clark has joined the Government's Industrial Strategy Advisory Council.

Spending on culture, heritage and libraries by English councils has been cut by more than half over the last 15 years, ...