The government’s homelessness strategy needs to go further to address the increasing use of temporary accommodation and the ...

Councils may be forced to compete for new funding from the warm homes grant, after a government minister refused to give a ...

Health improvement should be a core test of devolution, write the assistant director, healthy lives team, at the Health ...

After 14 years and £1m invested in each of 150 areas, Big Local offers a blueprint for the future of civic life, writes the ...

There has long been a perception of local government as a stepping stone or training ground for national office, writes Phil ...

The number of homes a council can build before they have to open a housing revenue account will be increased to 1,000 as part of a government bid to boost social housing.

Some councils are urning to institutional investors while others are looking at new leasing arrangements to address their temporary accommodation bills.

A small number of councils are planning to either freeze council tax or increase it by less than the maximum amount in ...

Council-employed staff should be excluded from the government’s proposed Fair Pay Agreement for adult social care, sector leaders warn.

Almost three quarters of councillors are concerned workloads will become unmanageable following local government ...

LGC's Councillors for the 21st Century campaign has highlighted a host of issues with the current system of payment and ...

Most of the councils where elections have been cancelled for this year are Labour authorities, according to LGC analysis.