High standards are vital but a new regime must only intervene in democratic mandates as a last resort, writes deputy editor ...

Ministers have renamed the previous government’s £1.5bn Long Term Plan for Towns as the Plan for Neighbourhoods, and are ...

Staffordshire CC is proposing creating a county-wide unitary that would join a mayoral strategic authority alongside the ...

The government has denied that it deliberately misled parliament over delays to local elections due to reorganisation. During ...

Unnecessary parochialism and pettiness” is holding local government back from “empowerment” through the mayoral combined ...

The social media site is no longer the right platform, or an effective one, for the council to communicate on, writes the ...

Unions have accused Devon CC of threatening to “fire and rehire” more than 800 staff if they do not agree to the removal of a ...