Margaret Eaton, the frontrunner in the race to become the Local Government Association's new chair, will pick her battles with ministers, but has pledged to be 'aggressively forthright' if necessary.
Unions representing council workers in Scotland have threatened further strike action after local authority employers refused to increase a 2.5% pay offer.
There remains a lack of coherence in education provision for many 16-year-olds, despite attempts to create a joined-up 14-19 structure for learning, a review of local provision has found.
Scottish local authority employers and trade union leaders met this week in an attempt to resolve the pay dispute that led to a one-day strike by 150,000 workers.
The huge number of gleaming new hospitals are a testament to the success of the Private Finance Initiative. But can the policy survive now that it is no longer the only game in town? Mark Hellowell...
The head of the new social housing regulatory body talks to Neil Merrick about how he intends to fundamentally challenge the way that housing associations operate
Plans to replace 46 local fire control rooms with nine regional centres will cost more than double the government's estimates and almost nine times as much as first planned, the firefighters' union...
Controversy over Scotland's flagship free personal care service was reignited as the latest figures showed that the cost has soared by 52% in the four years since the policy was introduced.
Election officers believe companies should be legally prevented from gaining access to the personal details in the electoral register, according to a survey published this week.
As councils congratulate themselves on increasing household recycling rates, a House of Lords committee has highlighted a problem that could wreck the drive to cut down on landfill. Of Britain's...
Former Local Government Association chair Lord Bruce-Lockhart has died of cancer at the age of 66. A former leader of Kent County Council, Sandy Bruce-Lockhart was LGA chair from 2004 to 2007, where...
Voluntary organisations can get to people and places that other service providers struggle to reach. Or can they? The government thinks so but the public administration select committee is not so...
Citizen empowerment is intended to complement local democracy, but the growth in partnerships can mean less involvement. Chris Skelcher and Eric-Hans Klijn explain how this circle could be squared
