Thirty cash-strapped local authorities have been granted more than £1.5bn in Exceptional Financial Support (EFS).

Police have joined local authority staff on school parking patrols in a Kent borough after a car was ‘driven deliberately’ ...

Brighton and Hove City Council, which has pledged that the region will be carbon neutral by 20230, has ditched electric buses ...

Dean Collins, AI expert at PA Consulting, says we need to re-think the ‘people aspect’ if AI’s benefits are to be felt by ...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £37,000 after Barnet Council inspectors found 18 people, including children, sharing a ...

A borough councillor in Lancashire owes almost £4,000 in council tax, making him unable to vote on the authority’s budget.

Southampton City Council has announced it will no longer post on X, formerly known as Twitter, in a decision it said was ...

Councillors in postponed elections could serve for just 12 months before fresh polls are held to new unitaries unless ...

Unpaid carers are feeling ‘overwhelmed’ and say they need more support from local authorities, a survey by a carers charity ...

The first leader of North Northamptonshire Council has announced he is stepping down at the local elections in May to ...

While Smartphone Free-Childhood Barnet is a schools-led scheme, the local authority said it had ‘supported a borough-wide letter to go out to parents of up to 63,000 school pupils to make Barnet ...

A £62m research project will provide ‘the most detailed picture yet’ of the the long-term health effects of vaping on ...