Knowsley MBC’s employment and appointments committee has recommended that James Duncan become its next chief executive. Mr Duncan, who is currently executive director of resources at the council, ...

Local authorities face a £54bn funding shortfall over the next five years if the government does not tackle the underlying pressures facing the sector, warn sector leaders. Analysis by the County ...

Existing interventions should be strengthened and scaled up to overcome structural barriers, writes a research fellow at the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. During the last ...

New West Midlands mayor Richard Parker on Birmingham's intervention 'hit job', reforming the combined authority and 'arm-wrestling' with Homes England Birmingham City Council commissioners' approach ...

Councils on the south coast have submitted conflicting devolution plans to the government, LGC has learned, however they have not ruled out working together. East and West Sussex CCs have both ...

Newham’s independent living support service trusted assessors won the health and social care category at the LGC Awards 2024. Lydia Drummond, assistant director of commissioning - adults and health, ...

The interim chief executive of Harlow DC has the left the role after seven months with the authority. Yvonne Rees was appointed interim chief in February after Andrew Bramidge left the role by mutual ...

Senior Conservative local government figures fear the government will "dictate" the devolution deals in its haste to complete the map. At the Conservative conference this week, current and former ...

Middlesbrough is a town that is “on the up at the moment,” in the words of its council’s interim chief executive. And on the evidence of government’s recent decision to lift a best value notice and ...

Steve Rumbelow is standing down as the chief executive at Rochdale MBC after a decade in the job. It has been confirmed that Mr Rumbelow will be retiring early next year when his replacement has been ...

District councils are expected to increase their spending on temporary accommodation by an average of 33% this year, the District Councils’ Network (DCN) has said. The warning follows the publication ...

At the local elections, nine weeks before the general election, the Conservative party lost 474 councillors. As James Cleverly pointed out in his apology speech to councillors, this is not a good sign ...