A group of MPs have said councils should have to inspect housing before it can be used for temporary accommodation, after ...

Dorset Council has announced that Catherine Howe is set to become its next chief executive. Matt Prosser, who has been chief ...

Neighbouring authorities have reacted cautiously to Birmingham City Council ’s plea for help to tackle the city’s ongoing bin ...

Greater Manchester CA mayor Andy Burnham (Lab) has called for “wholesale change” in how the UK operates so that Whitehall is ...

The government has issued a best value notice to Tees Valley CA, which will have implications for the authority’s attempts to ...

The government received at least 40 separate local government reorganisation interim plan submissions, LGC analysis has found ...

Formal neighbourhood-level power-sharing agreements between councils and community organisations would help close the gap ...

The government is betting its pension reforms will boost UK investment but some are already asking what happens if it doesn’t ...

Council pension funds should be re-branded to reflect the complexity of their role in the changing Local Government Pension ...

Birmingham City Council has declared a ‘major incident’ after ongoing industrial action by refuse workers led to rising ...

Birmingham’s government appointed commissioners have blamed officers for slow progress and said the council is “deeply wedded ...

Editor's note This was our 2025 April fool story. LGC is not aware of any plans to colour code councillors. Ministers are ...