The government expects the current thresholds for raising council tax without a referendum to be maintained at their current ...

LGC reader survey reveals staff are working more hours than they are paid for, and uncovers what is – and is not – working in ...

Experts are calling for social care providers to be exempt from the national insurance contributions (NICs) increase after fresh analysis shows it will ...

Local authorities should not be responsible for unblocking the nutrient neutrality "bottleneck" when they are not responsible ...

The Office for Place – a body charged with responsibility for making sure new developments are attractive – is to close down, ...

Concerns remain that the government's compensation plan for councils will not cover the full increase in direct employment ...

The Grand Old Duke of York has been immortalised in a nursery rhyme for the futile action of having ten thousand march up to ...

MPs have promised to try to work together to address social care reform. Social care minister Stephen Kinnock told the County ...

The government is set to appoint ‘ministerial envoys’ to Tower Hamlets Council as part of a statutory support package ...

Thurrock Council expects legal and other professional fees related to the fallout from its financial failure to exceed £47.4m ...

The author of the new book Platformland: an anatomy of next generation public services on how governments around the world ...

Local government has been around the reorganisation merry-go-round before – but could it be different this time asks LGC ...