Adam Hill, chief executive of Mansfield DC, will step down from his role in the new year to take up the top job at nearby ...
The approach to children’s social care was very different 20 years ago, write the director of children’s services and chief ...
The increase in employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) for 2025-26 is already impacting councils’ costs and their ...
Councils are calling for a new workforce strategy for children’s social workers after research indicated they will need to recruit more than 10,000 more ...
Whisper it, but today's Get Britain working proposals are evidence of a government paying more than just lip service to local ...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has extended the best value inspections of Spelthorne BC and ...
Local government is to be handed almost £300m to develop new ways of tackling unemployment and inactivity in what is being ...
Council leaders have told LGC that the proposed reorganisation of local government is "undemocratic" and shows a lack of ...
After the programme ended this autumn the chair of the High Street Task Force reflects on what worked and what is still ...
Guildford BC needs to do “much more” to eliminate the risk of governance and financial failure, the panel overseeing its ...
Ministers should not overplay the benefits and underplay the practical challenges of reorganisation, writes LGC's head of content Kirsty Weakley Today's ...
District leaders in Norfolk and Suffolk fear the future loss of local democratic accountability as the county councils pursue ...