The external audit of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough CA 2022-23 accounts has resulted in a disclaimed opinion from its ...

JVT tells LGC councils ‘did the hard yards’ during covid but their public health role is undermined by financial crisis If it is possible to say that an ...

Without extra funding local authorities may struggle to get the same positive results as those councils involved in piloting children's social care ...

Changes to the employer National Insurance Contributions is set to cost the adult social care sector more than £900m next year, according to analysis by the Nuffield Trust. The think tank has ...

From the evidence on show at last week's LGC summit, local government's most senior officers are impatient for radical change ...

The pressures on councils due to the rising costs of providing transport to school for young people are “far too urgent” to ...

Housing minister Matthew Pennycook failed to provide assurance that the government's pledge to build 1.5 million homes over ...

The impact of the government’s ambitious plans to reform children’s social care will be limited without extra funding, sector ...

The government has pledged to “crack down on care providers making excessive profit”  in children’s social care reforms ...

Hastings BC  has appointed Robert Cottrill as its interim chief executive on a shared basis with Lewes DC and Eastbourne BC.

Pothole compensation claims to local authorities more than doubled last year, a report from RAC reveals. According to freedom ...

South Tyneside MBC created a network that harnesses low-grade heat from the River Tyne and exports it to council buildings, ...