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 ...

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

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

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 ...

No region should feel compelled to host an event highlighting how unfairly it has been treated compared to the rest of the ...

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has promised that devolution is not just about mayors but it will also "strengthen local ...

Three Local Government Pension Scheme pools plan to seek authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rather than ...

Lancashire is “far from any firm agreement on having a mayor” a senior county councillor has told LGC, contradicting the ...

The shadow local government secretary has told the Convention of the North that the region needs to “get better at asking” ...