Trafford Council is to ask Whitehall for more than £20m in exceptional financial support (EFS) after its deficit increased by ...

The number of new build starts in the year ending September 2025 has increased by 18% compared to the previous year.

The Government has announced a £200m programme to expand training for teachers and education staff to better support pupils with SEND.

A resident has been fined over £18,000 for making false claims in attempt to seek compensation from the council.

Hundreds of vulnerable children in England are being placed for months in illegal, unregistered homes, according to a ...

The latest plans to slash the pay for Local Government Association (LGA) staff are unlikely to hit those on the very highest ...

The Housing Committee has written to a Holiday Inn in Manchester to seek an explanation for staff’s ‘appalling’ ...

Local government’s digital future depends on its people — and councils like Sheffield are proving that investing in data ...

Birmingham City Council’s Labour leader John Cotton has called for the chief constable of West Midlands Police, Craig ...

Council leaders have strayed from party lines over proposals to delay local elections. Conservative and Lib Dem-run ...

Unite has accused Birmingham CC’s lead commissioner and managing director of misleading councillors during a meeting of a key ...

A report by Central London Forward (CLF), a partnership of the 12 central London local authorities, says the tourist tax has ...