The government has been urged to prepare an emergency action plan to protect services if local authorities run out of money amid wholesale changes to council funding.
Councils have called for additional powers to charge developers council tax if they let planning permission expire without completing construction of new homes.
Greg Clark has confirmed councils will need to set out efficiency plans if they are to qualify for four-year financial settlements from next April but said he does not intend these to be “heavy...
Over 100 councils are to join a flagship public sector efficiency scheme that is intended to cut costs by sharing offices and rationalising the public estate.
Councils in England and Wales have now recovered another portion of the more than £1bn in deposits that was lost when the Icelandic banking system collapsed in 2008.
Councils could be placed on ‘a fast tack to financial failure’ if the government implemented a policy to force authorities to spend their reserves to make up for cuts in funding, the...
The Local Government Association has today called on the government to reimburse councils facing big increases in the number of asylum seekers, particularly unaccompanied children, arriving in...
English councils are facing cuts of £3.3bn in central government funding next year, putting further pressure on services like elderly care, child protection and road maintenance, the Local...
Former Department for Communities and Local Government permanent secretary Lord Kerslake has been named president-elect of the Local Government Association.
The Local Government Association is preparing to offer a ‘devolution deal’ to the next government after a study of public service integration initiatives found they would not be fully effective...
Groups of local authorities should be given complete control over council tax, including the value of bands and the timing of revaluations, the Independent Commission on Local Government Finance has...
Councils should be given the right to set business rates and retain any growth in income, while Whitehall should lose its current redistribution powers, the Local Government Association has said.
Local authorities often offer little or no help to homeless people according to undercover research into council provision across England by from charity Crisis.
Councils in England have said that plans being set out by the three main unionist parties to boost the remit of the Holyrood in the event of a no vote in next week’s Scottish independence referendum...
The new chair of the Local Government Association has called for councils to be given new powers to coordinate local employment support after warning that millions could be left without suitable work...
Many councils are struggling to improve their child protection services and need better leadership to bring about sustained improvement in performance, Ofsted has warned today.
The Local Government Association's new finance and performance director expects to be a 'broker of understanding' for town halls and Whitehall, he tells Joseph McHugh