3/3/2026

Failure to recognise council employees as key workers during the pandemic must be reviewed as part of planning for future emergencies, Covid inquiry told.

7/15/2025

Nigel Farage has ordered Reform UK council leaders to give up on what he calls ‘virtue-signalling’ net zero targets.

9/11/2024

Kensington & Chelsea LBC's response to the Grenfell disaster was ‘woefully lacking', the chairman of the Local Government Association (LGA) at the time, Lord Porter, has said.

10/2/2023

The Government should invest more in public health to address the roots of poor health, according to a poll for the charity Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).

5/2/2023

Councils have been urged to ‘apply maximum flexibility’ when UK nationals returning from Sudan present as homeless.

8/30/2022

Duncan Shaw explores the impact of unprecedented and unpredictable weather patterns in the UK, and the role local authorities have to play in ensuring communities can cope.

12/3/2021

County Durham has declared a 'major incident' after residents have been left without power for six days following Storm Arwen.

5/18/2021

Duncan Shaw and David Powell explore the role local government can play in bringing together communities to build resilient behaviours and networks.

4/20/2021

MPs have hit out at the Government’s ‘quickly drawn up’ COVID-19 shielding programme for taking too long to identify up to 800,000 people who may have missed out on help.

3/3/2021

LocalGov found out how the regional and local COVID-19 testing centres were able to be built in just 12 hours.

10/26/2020

Councils should appoint a ‘chief resilience officer’ to help respond to future crises, a report has argued.

5/19/2020

Planning for a no-deal Brexit at the end of this year would ‘overwhelm’ the country’s emergency response capacity, the Government has been warned in a leaked report.

4/24/2020

Dwindling supplies of vital life-saving personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline care workers will run out within days, the Local Government Association (LGA) warned today.

4/8/2020

Leeds City Council is to build a £800,000 temporary mortuary as part of emergency planning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

11/20/2019

The British Red Cross is calling for the law to be changed so that voluntary groups are included in planning responses to emergencies and disasters.

10/30/2019

‘Far better direct communication’ between local authorities and fire and rescue services is needed, an official inquiry has urged.

8/12/2019

The Government has activated an emergency fund for councils affected by flooding.

1/31/2019

Chief executives have told communities secretary James Brokenshire Whitehall needs to be more joined up between departments and in its communications with councils over Brexit.

10/26/2017

Four months after the Grenfell fire tragedy, many survivors remain without a permanent home and the council’s relationship with residents remains severed. Sam Clayden quizzes Kensington & Chelsea RLBC leader Elizabeth Campbell on the borough’s progress.

9/21/2017

The Manchester Arena attack showed local government at its best. Mark Whitehead spoke to the city council’s leader Joanne Roney.

9/11/2017

Local government is examining its approach to emergency planning following a string of horrific incidents, as Mark Whitehead finds out.