Wolverhampton City Council has launched a compliance scheme for beauty services such as Botox to try to “improve standards". The council’s environmental ...

The final fair funding formula is unlikely to change distribution of cash between councils significantly as ministers have little room for manoeuvre, a ...

Current deputy Andrew Crookham will take the top job at Lincolnshire CC following the retirement of Debbie Barnes as chief executive in March next year.

Ministers and officials have been challenged to set out a clearer timetable for local government reorganisation, ...

Councils will have to tell ministers about decisions to refuse planning permission for large housing sites in case the housing secretary wants to “step in ...

Twelve council leaders in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Swindon are expected to back a request to form a new mayoral strategic authority. The proposed Thames Valley strategic authority would cover the ...

Local government minister Alison McGovern has rejected a request to delay LGR and insisted the government will complete LGR in time ...

Ministers must not put “politics above public service” when taking decisions on local government reorganisation and subject district business cases to ...

Eight county and unitary leaders have written to the communities secretary urging him to look at council budgets before determining funding allocations.

A unitary has selected a former director in central government as their preferred candidate for chief executive.

East Sussex CC has said it will write to the government to request exceptional financial support (EFS).  During a cabinet meeting this week, the county ...

In areas covered by a combined authority, the directly elected mayor will be granted the power that they can hand to a deputy mayor. Of the nine combined authority areas that do not already have PCC ...