01/04/2016

Council leaders have hailed the devolution of health and social care budgets to Greater Manchester as a defining moment and urged other Whitehall departments to ‘follow suit’.

01/04/2016

Government analysis predicts the National Living Wage will eradicate the pay gap between the lowest paid men and women by 2020.

01/04/2016

MPs have called on the Government to clarify how it will tackle ‘dawdling’ local authorities that do not have a local plan in place by 2017.

31/03/2016

The Government should abandon its over-reliance on the private sector to solve the housing crisis and commit to substantial public investment and a bigger role for local authorities, a new report has warned.

31/03/2016

Latest official figures show the number of workless households has fallen by 20% since 2010.

31/03/2016

‘Unrepresentative samples’ were to blame for pollsters’ failure to predict last year’s general election result, an inquiry has found.

30/03/2016

A Government scheme that encourages jobseekers to launch businesses has created more than 80,000 new firms in the last five years with Liverpool generating the most start-ups.

30/03/2016

Children’s homes too often resort to involving police rather than offering teenagers in their care the support they need, according to a new report.

30/03/2016

More than 1,900 jobs were created across England’s 24 enterprise zones between July and September last year, latest figures have revealed.

23/03/2016

Councils have been issued with new guidance that is designed to combat the estimated £2bn lost through fraud every year.

23/03/2016

It will take 14 years to clear the current backlog of road repairs across England thanks to ‘decades of underfunding’, a new report has warned.

23/03/2016

Chesterfield Borough Council is to review its move to become part of the Sheffield City-Region in a bid to avoid ‘money being wasted on an unnecessary legal challenge’.

23/03/2016

The Government has backed major development plans in Aberdeen with an £86m guarantee.

23/03/2016

Councils have come under fire for their role in more than 200,000 care workers being paid less than the minimum wage.

23/03/2016

Supported lodgings offer young people a nurturing environment and should be promoted in order to cut the number of care leavers living in ‘unsuitable bed and breakfasts’, a report has found.

04/03/2016

Analysis by the BBC has found stark differences in the levels of transition funds being provided to councils across the country.

04/03/2016

Local government leaders in Scotland have described Government council tax reforms as ‘bizarre’ and warned they will merely add more red tape.

04/03/2016

A new programme has been launched to raise awareness of autism among primary school children in Wales.

04/03/2016

Bolton Council is to check whether any children missed out on their preferred school after an investigation found the authority had changed admissions criteria without informing parents.

02/03/2016

A campaign has been launched to establish London’s second parish council under the Localism Act.