Ministers have been warned against overreach with the creation of the Local Audit Office (LAO). Sector experts voiced ...

Wokingham Borough Council has been ordered to pay a mother £2,600 after it failed to meet her son’s special educational needs ...

Leo Hanna, executive vice president UK at TechnologyOne, looks at what the UK can learn from Australia when it comes to using ...

Council leaders have warned council tax increases place ‘more financial burden on households’ without fixing the long-term ...

Strikes by more than 350 Birmingham bin workers will ‘intensify’ over the next two months, trade union Unite has announced.

Not all 39 councillors at a Nottinghamshire council are fully getting to grips with the financial challenges for the local ...

Millions of people are exposed to scams and dangerous products because of understaffed trading standards teams, a freedom of ...

Councils facing financial woes have been told to scale back council tax rises, just weeks before they put their new budgets ...

The Government must introduce long-term funding mechanisms for Children’s Services to address increasing complexity and ...

A flyover which has been closed due to concerns about the safety of a concrete pillar had not been inspected weekly, despite ...

Local authority leaders have welcomed Ofsted’s greater focus on inclusion as part of the proposed overhaul of how schools are ...

New research has revealed that more than six million people were turned away from their local waste disposal or recycling ...