National as well as local factors may be at play in the Care Quality Commission’s findings, writes Andrew Cozens, an ...

An opposition councillor is “broken hearted” over delays to Birkenhead regeneration projects, where costs have spiralled by £12m prompting the met to ...

Children and young people have rocketed up the national agenda in the 12 months since the general election, writes the ...

Councillors can be plunged into poverty overnight and miss out on building up a pension during the prime of their lives, the ...

The Care Quality Commission has rated Blackpool BC's social care services with the first 'inadequate' rating in the country.

South Norfolk DC has warned plans to move single adult male asylum seekers into a local hotel despite angry protests could ...

Seven ‘homeless’ council pension funds have announced plans to join the Border to Coast pool. There are currently eight pools ...

The government’s replacement for the apprenticeship levy is a chance to modernise how we deliver training and apprenticeships ...

After 100 days in office, Ian Cooper (Ref) sees his role as Staffordshire CC leader like a "boring bank manager job" and is ...

The former head of the prisoner and probation service Amy Rees has landed the top role at Homes England. She will leave her ...

Ahead of next month’s LGC Investment & Pensions Summit in Birmingham, five questions with the COO and head of investor ...

Darren Grimes (Ref), deputy of leader of Durham CC, told LGC his party’s key priority is to settle the “care emergency” ...