Local government employee representatives and the trade unions Unison and GMB have agreed a 3.2 per cent pay rise for chief ...

A new lead commissioner has been appointed to help tackle Birmingham’s ongoing financial crisis following the immediate ...

MPs are calling on the government to undertake an urgent review of the current council tax system – dismissing the link ...

The government has ruled out helping council pension funds that have to move to a new pool with the “significant” costs of ...

Nineteen year-old Reform UK’s George Finch has been elected to run Warwickshire County Council. Cllr Finch, who is believed ...

It’s going to get a lot more noisy up in Westminster as Conservative heavy hitter James Cleverly has taken up the mantle of Angela Rayner’s opponent, ...

Hounslow LBC’s interim chief executive Mandy Skinner has been appointed to the permanent role. She took over from Niall Bolger in February, who stepped ...

Just three years after their creation as a means to improve collaboration between health and local government, integrated ...

A "crisis in our democratic system" is on the cards unless the mounting pressure on the electoral process is addressed, a ...

Essex’s work with public, private and voluntary sector partners is enabling significant strides towards its clean energy ...

Lancashire CC’s Reform UK leader has criticised the council for taking on multi-million pound investments, some of which will ...

The abolition of the committee system should not remove the space for slow, deliberative decision making, writes the chief ...