A £250m contingency fund should be created by the Treasury to help councils facing unplanned costs and potential community tensions because of poor immigration monitoring, town hall leaders have...
Civil service workers were set for a national strike after members of the Public and Commercial Services union voted for action over job cuts, pay and privatisation.
There is a rich stream of 'untapped' funding from the private sector that could be used to improve Britain's transport infrastructure, ministers have said.
Councils in Scotland will have access to a £70m fund if they agree to freeze council tax bills under proposals being considered by Finance Secretary John Swinney.
The Scottish National Party government has once more signalled its determination to go its own way with radical proposals to reform housing, including ending council house tenants' right to buy.
Local government leaders and environmental campaigners are awaiting further details after ministers set out proposals allowing councils to trial 'save-as-you-throw' recycling schemes.
The government wants neighbourhoods and communities to run more services. But with an eye-wateringly tight local government financial settlement, how will this be funded? Peter Hetherington...
District councils are devastated and lawyers shocked. Last month a judge found that the secretary of state could press on with plans for unitary authorities before her powers to do so had become law
Local authorities are to be offered incentives to free land for housing and make better use of empty properties, under government plans published on October 26.
John Healey has hit back at local government leaders for complaining about the recent Comprehensive Spending Review settlement, saying councils must be more commercial and not look to the government...
The new generation of Public Service Agreements are not old-style performance targets by another name, Andy Burnham insisted to the Treasury select committee this week.
A council that was at the centre of a row over a redundancy and retirement package for its chief executive has been criticised for a lack of openness caused by 'unduly close' relationships between...
& it's the way that you do it. And that's the problem when it comes to putting policies such as healthy eating into practice. Phil Swann identifies the obstacles
'Personalised public services' is the Brown government's latest Big Idea. But how are the ambitious plans for round-the-clock GP services, individual health budgets and one-to-one tutoring going to...
An ageing population presents a series of issues that must be addressed now, if millions of people are to have a decent old age. Rebecca George looks at the challenges ahead