Councillors can be plunged into poverty overnight and miss out on building up a pension during the prime of their lives, the ...

Children and young people have rocketed up the national agenda in the 12 months since the general election, writes the ...

National as well as local factors may be at play in the Care Quality Commission’s findings, writes Andrew Cozens, an ...

An opposition councillor is “broken hearted” over delays to Birkenhead regeneration projects, where costs have spiralled by £12m prompting the met to ...

The Care Quality Commission has rated Blackpool BC's social care services with the first 'inadequate' rating in the country.

South Norfolk DC has warned plans to move single adult male asylum seekers into a local hotel despite angry protests could ...

After 100 days in office, Ian Cooper (Ref) sees his role as Staffordshire CC leader like a "boring bank manager job" and is ...

Seven ‘homeless’ council pension funds have announced plans to join the Border to Coast pool. There are currently eight pools ...

The government’s replacement for the apprenticeship levy is a chance to modernise how we deliver training and apprenticeships ...

LGC’s Councillors for the 21st Century campaign points to the help members of the unitary councils that are set to be formed ...

Head of content Kirsty Weakley on looking for the slivers of optimism in social care Today's news and views Wessex councils ...

Council leaders in Sussex are at loggerheads over the government's policy to force them to merge and create new unitaries. In ...