Shokat Lal tells LGC how clarity and focussing on the “fundamentals” means the formerly troubled council now has a positive ...

How have the fair funding reforms impacted your council's spending plans? How is the LGR process affecting residents and relationships between councils?

Some of the biggest councils in England are set to save millions of pounds in employer pension contributions after their pension funds recorded increased ...

Average employer pension contribution rates are set to fall by almost a third following the three-yearly valuation of the Local Government Pension Scheme, ...

Pension committees and the new 'independent person' who will advise them may not have the necessary skills to properly scrutinise their investment pools, ...

Government amendments to the devolution bill set out how local scrutiny committees will hold mayors to a higher standard.

The government has set out a list of "minimum interventions" that integrated care boards should deliver for neighbourhood ...

Anthony Okereke (Lab) tells LGC about the "intentional work" his council has done around inclusion  Greenwich RBC has one of ...

Rachel Reeves has begun the process of developing “a roadmap for future fiscal devolution”, which will be published at the ...

The new-look LGPS needs a way to protect local accountability while avoiding regulatory overreach, writes the tri-borough ...

The District Councils’ Network has renamed itself the Local Councils Network as its chair warned of the risk that reorganisation benefits may be ...