A council leader has issued an urgent plea to recoup £17m which his authority has spent on housing refugees who have been granted asylum. Hillingdon LBC ...

Two local authorities and a hotel are opposing Home Office plans for asylum seeker accommodation in their districts. Protests ...

Financial insecurity is causing “low morale and emotional stress” among some councillors, a report to Birmingham City Council ...

Warrington MBC deputy chief executive Lynton Green has announced his exit from local government after almost four decades ...

By shying away from bold financial reforms the government risks fixing yesterday’s problems instead of tomorrow’s, writes LGC ...

NHS England missed local authority leaders off emails about hospital discharge policy during the Covid pandemic, the former ...

A defeated Reform UK candidate has launched a High Court challenge to overturn what she claims was a “fraudulent” result ...

When Clair Alcock stepped into a new role heading up the statutory body that oversees the £400bn Local Government Pension Scheme, she was under no ...

Exclusive LGC research has analysed allowance levels at all upper tier local authorities. Scroll down to view our interactive ...

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

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 ...

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, ...