Today’s confirmation of a City Devolution Bill should be the starting point for devolution go both further and wider across the country. The government should set out a roadmap to turn devolution...
Westminster City Council has set a new record for approval of local authority accounts after they were signed-off on May 18 – one day quicker than traditional frontrunners Oldham.
Government plans to intervene in ‘coasting’ schools must include an expanded role for councils to hold academies and free schools to account, the Local Government Association has said.
Former communities secretary Eric Pickles is to be knighted in recognition of his public service as an MP and in local government, it has been announced.
The government is to press ahead with plans to extend the Right-to-Buy scheme to housing associations tenants, despite warnings that this would hurt the public finances.
George Osborne has been warned that making elected mayors a precondition for city devolution presents an ‘impossibly high hurdle’ in some areas and could even derail his Northern Powerhouse plans.
The Local Government Association has called on government to give councils two years to form into groups or combined authorities for devolution from Whitehall. But it said ministers should not impose...
Chris Naylor has moved from suburban Barnet, and the London borough’s controversial outsourcing of public services, to be chief executive at working class Barking & Dagenham, where he sees...
Oldham Council has beat its own speed record for closing its accounts after approval was given to its 2014/15 report by the authority’s audit committee yesterday.
Tackling local government pension scheme deficits should be the main focus for newly appointed local government secretary Greg Clark, according to a survey out today.
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire county councils are to form a groundbreaking alliance to seek devolved powers to boost economic growth.
The new Conservative government has today been urged to implement wholesale reform to local taxation by abolishing council tax bands and replacing them with a flat rate levy on property values, set...
Jim O’Neill, the leading economist who has called for a major programme of devolution to the UK’s cities to boost economic growth, has been named as a Treasury minister in David Cameron’s government...
Chancellor George Osborne has set out plans for a process of devolution to cities across England, but will insist on the creation of elected mayors before Whitehall hands powers to councils.
Ten of the UK’s largest cities have today launched a ‘devolution declaration’ setting out demands for the new government to deliver on city devolution.
The Conservatives have retaken control of the Local Government Association following Thursday’s council elections, the umbrella group of local authorities has confirmed today
Greg Clark has been appointed local government secretary by Prime Minister David Cameron in his post-election reshuffle, replacing Eric Pickles at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Local council elections have mirrored the general election outcome, with strong gains for the Conservatives at the expense of both Labour and the Liberal Democrats
The new Conservative government may have a majority in Westminster, but greater diversity in local elections will still influence how it governs over the next five years
A coalition of more than 50 charities, think-tanks and public finance experts has called for the next government to prioritise investment in early intervention programmes in a bid to unlock savings...
