Scotland’s trade unions have challenged council leaders to stand shoulder to shoulder with them in mounting concerted direct action against spending cuts.
The government today appointed the financial consulting firm FTI to advise on disbanding the Audit Commission and transferring its audit practice out of the public sector.
The head of Scotland's local authorities today unleashed a scathing attack on political party leaders, accusing them of treating council services and jobs as ammunition for the Holyrood election...
First Minister Alex Salmond has launched the Scottish National Party election manifesto with a promise to freeze the council tax for the full five years of the next Holyrood term if his party is...
England's richest areas pay the highest council tax per head, and poorer ones receive the most grant, the government has said in an effort to prove the system is fair
Fire and rescue services have been distracted from their work by ‘the previous government’s management from the centre’, fire minister Bob Neill has said in his response to a review of the service.
Social workers have paid too little attention to children's views and to adults with potentially useful information on abuses, an Ofsted report on serious case reviews has found
Prime Minister David Cameron has urged councils to adopt a ‘common sense’ approach to the organisation of street parties to celebrate the upcoming royal wedding.
Almost all English local authorities are slashing senior and middle management costs to help balance their budgets, but libraries and Sure Start centres are also in the line of fire, according to a...
Seventeen communities have been chosen to pilot ‘neighbourhood planning’, which is set to come into force in England when the Localism Bill becomes law.
