People who volunteer across a host of community services including leisure centres and libraries should receive £100 off their council tax bill, the Local Government Association has suggested today.
Councils have called for local communities to be given as much as 10% of the revenues from local shale gas initiatives after the government opened up the bidding processes for fracking sites.
Councils have defended their use of parking charges after a poll of drivers by the motoring organisation the RAC found that four in ten drivers think councils are using this revenue to subsidise...
Low-income families are struggling to find good quality, affordable and flexible childcare providers, the Citizens Advice has said today as it called for councils to be given a stronger oversight...
Unison has called on council employers to come back to the negotiating table as it announced its local government and school support members would hold a second day of strike action on September 30.
Policymakers must not neglect passenger transport serving isolated communities in both rural and urban areas, MPs on the transport committee have warned.
An urban regeneration company charged with leading the redevelopment of central Birmingham has been established, capitalising on the city’s status as a High Speed 2 hub.
Sixty-nine local authorities are to receive extra school funding from the Department for Education for the next academic year, schools minister David Laws has confirmed.
Complaints about local authorities’ tax and benefit programmes increased by more than a quarter in the year town halls introduced council tax support schemes, the Local Government Ombudsman’s annual...
Local authorities could be forced to publish the value of the council flats and houses that they own, under government plans unveiled by housing minister Kris Hopkins.
The law governing data sharing between public bodies is complex and inconsistent and needs to be simplified and clarified, the Law Commission has said.
Changes to the government’s flagship Better Care Fund, which could see funding diverted to hospitals, are needed to ensure the scheme is effective, health minister Dr Dan Poulter has said.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has said he would be ‘very disappointed’ if councils were not retaining nearly all of business rates by the end of the decade following the coalition’s local...
Whitehall does not fully understand the scale of the social care challenge facing local authorities or the costs associated with implementing the Care Act, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
NHS chief executive Simon Stevens today set out plans for the health service and councils to work together to give people with high care needs greater control over their treatment as part of a ‘big...
The first issue of municipal bond is set to go ahead next spring after the Local Government Association confirmed it had raised more than seven times the necessary funding to launch the agency.
