Planning meetings are in need of modernisation, writes LGC reporter Kwame Boakye after attending his first meeting. Today's ...

Thurrock’s leader on why he wants to have a “different conversation” with government Rebuilding “trust that’s been broken” ...

Local government funding, and parity for economic development, must underpin industrial strategy ambition, writes the chair ...

The Housing Ombudsman has included cases of "severe maladministration" at eight councils in its latest report on improving ...

A new commission will help rethink the approach to social care, writes the chair of Essex CC’s Caring Communities Commission ...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is pausing inspections of integrated care systems (ICSs) for six months following the ...

The government announced today that £68m would be distributed to 54 councils to develop abandoned brownfield sites into new ...

Districts are concerned they will have too few planners to support the government’s ambitions for a huge expansion of ...

The government will not be able to meet its goals without stabilising the "extremely fragile financial state" of local ...

Councils are calling for major financial reforms – but it’s not yet certain they’ll avoid further funding cuts, writes LGC ...

The government should talk to council pension funds when drawing up plans for the future of the scheme, writes the chairman ...

Labour's National Executive Committee has stepped in at Tameside MBC after the chief executive and senior politicians quit ...