A new Government pilot scheme will see seven council areas provided with funding for kinship carers. The Kinship Zone local ...

The Local Government Association (LGA) is to look into the scale of the burden of members having to sign off salary packages ...

Reform UK’s plan to close the LGPS to new entrants would deepen recruitment crises and push low-paid workers towards poverty, argues UNISON’s Glyn Jenkins.

IJBs have reached a critical point in Scotland with a significant risk they will become financially unsustainable, according ...

Work has started on a review of the national pay scale used to determine salaries for most council employees in England, ...

The John Lewis Partnership has withdrawn from its Build to Rent business that pledged to provide 1,000 rental homes in ...

Local leaders in Manchester have expressed ‘deep concern’ after two men carrying a bag containing weapons walked into ...

The Government will ‘look again’ at the secretary of state’s powers after peers launched an attempt to rein in ministerial control over cancelling elections.

Care England has called on the Government to exclude adult social care premises from the High Value Council Tax Surcharge, known as the ‘Mansion Tax.’ ...

Minister Alison McGovern has raised ‘significant concerns’ about Somerset Council’s financial position in a letter responding to its request for support.

Members of Birmingham City Council have failed to reach agreement at the authority’s annual budget meeting, where the Labour ...

The transfer of powers from Westminster to the newly created Cheshire and Warrington Combined Authority has been formally confirmed.