It is "vital" that the independence of the proposed new Local Audit Office is "assured", the Local Government Association has told the government. This ...

Hackney's chief executive Dawn Carter-McDonald on her journey to the top job, the London housing crisis and dealing with a ...

Ministers will have to override local interests to ensure major projects go ahead, writes the associate dean, School of Public Policy, at the LSE. The ...

Now is the time for councils to rethink their approach to technology, writes Salesforce's head of local government Richard ...

The government will review its decision making for public investment to ensure no regions miss out, the chancellor announced ...

Working with outdated systems is among the biggest barriers to improving technology in local government, according to ...

Robin Porter, chief executive of Luton BC, has resigned after seventeen years with the council, citing a desire to spend more ...

Reorganisation has tested the strength of the local government family unity as they squabble over the "best" way to govern, ...

Jillian Kay has been appointed Southampton City Council’s chief executive, subject to approval of full council tomorrow.

Two Conservative MPs have backed a Lib Dem district leader's call for a ministerial meeting to discuss concerns over ...

Two districts have publicly opposed the inclusion of one unitary ahead of a meeting for potential members of a Thames Valley ...

The system that emerges from reorganisation will be unfit to inherit the name ‘local government’, write the emeritus professor of local government and emeritus professor of local politics at De ...