Crocodile keeping, horse burial and solitary frog removal are just some of the bizarre requests councils were asked to deal with last year, the Local Government Association has revealed.
Police and crime commissioners should be given additional powers, including the ability for sack local prison governors and probation service bosses, a think-tank has said.
Planning appeal hearings should be open to filming and reporting by bloggers and members of the public, Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has said.
Local authorities have referred debts to bailiffs on 1.8 million occasions in the last year, figures obtained by the advisory service Money Advice Trust show.
Councils in England have today warned that Treasury schemes to help people get mortgages risk creating a ‘housing bubble’ unless action is also taken to increase the number of homes.
Accounting and finance vacancies in the NHS, local government, housing and charity sectors have doubled in the last year, a recruitment consultancy has said.
Public services should be outsourced to employee-owned mutuals only with the consent of the staff concerned, co-operatives and trade unionists have said.
The Local Government Association has reiterated calls for financial restrictions that prevent councils from building more homes to be lifted after government figures showed the number of new homes...
The leader of the UK’s largest local authority has today urged the National Audit Office to investigate the government’s handling of its funding of councils.
Take home pay in the public sector declined in the three months to the end of July, the fourth consecutive period of decline, according to a survey of earnings.
Business rate relief for smaller firms has trebled in value since the last general election, Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has said.
Central government revenues would increase by more than £20bn if Whitehall's tax collection rates were as high as those for councils, the Local Government Association said today.
Plans to create combined authorities in two English regions have taken a step forward after details were published for new institutions in Merseyside and South Yorkshire.
Eric Pickles has urged councils to take immediate action to tackle illegal traveller sites after the Department for Communities and Local Government issued revised guidance on town hall powers to...
Fewer than a quarter of people whose benefits will be cut by the government’s welfare cap will be able to mitigate the effect by taking on more work or moving to cheaper housing, the Local Government...
The government has made misleading claims about the impact of spending cuts on local authorities, burying their true scale in an opaque technical process, according to the Local Government...
Public and voluntary sector employers are more likely to use zero hours contracts than those in the private sector, according to research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
