Two local authorities and a hotel are opposing Home Office plans for asylum seeker accommodation in their districts. Protests ...

Financial insecurity is causing “low morale and emotional stress” among some councillors, a report to Birmingham City Council ...

A council leader has issued an urgent plea to recoup £17m which his authority has spent on housing refugees who have been granted asylum. Hillingdon LBC ...

Warrington MBC deputy chief executive Lynton Green has announced his exit from local government after almost four decades ...

By shying away from bold financial reforms the government risks fixing yesterday’s problems instead of tomorrow’s, writes LGC ...

Local government employee representatives and the trade unions Unison and GMB have agreed a 3.2 per cent pay rise for chief ...

NHS England missed local authority leaders off emails about hospital discharge policy during the Covid pandemic, the former ...

Exclusive LGC research has analysed allowance levels at all upper tier local authorities. Scroll down to view our interactive ...

A defeated Reform UK candidate has launched a High Court challenge to overturn what she claims was a “fraudulent” result ...

A "crisis in our democratic system" is on the cards unless the mounting pressure on the electoral process is addressed, a ...

When Clair Alcock stepped into a new role heading up the statutory body that oversees the £400bn Local Government Pension Scheme, she was under no ...

The government has ruled out helping council pension funds that have to move to a new pool with the “significant” costs of ...