The long-awaited statutory guidance to implement pooling 2.0 provides a framework for resolving disagreements between pools and funds, writes the tri-borough director of treasury and pensions at ...

Steve Reed won perhaps the easiest round of applause at the Local Government Association conference when he was introduced as the man who enabled us to cheer England with a pint in our hands during ...

The Local Government Association's new chair has called for the next prime minister to "adjust" the approach to local ...

The communities secretary called for “double devolution” through more budget pooling and a “more radical version of Total Place”. Steve Reed delivered a keynote address at the Local Government ...

Remuneration is about removing barriers to participation and the current system falls short, writes the director of the ...

Social care reforms should be driven locally but supported by national government, according to a new report from the Local Government Association (LGA). The report draws on findings of a consultation ...

A notable trend has emerged in English local government’s approach to net zero of late; one which stands in marked contrast to a formerly well-established pattern. In the three years from 2019 to 2022 ...

Devon could have a mayor by next May, according to the county's leader and chief executive. Julian Brazil (Lib Dem), leader ...

Norfolk CC chief executive Tom McCabe is leaving his post after seven and a half years as the county’s most senior officer.

The East Midlands is facing a “disproportionate” share of funding cuts to pay for defence spending, its mayor has warned. East Midlands CCA mayor Claire Ward (Lab) has written to council leaders ...

Baroness Louise Casey told a group of senior MPs that unless councils are "equal partners" alongside the NHS, social care ...

The government’s direction of travel is right, but what comes next must meet the needs of a more complex, vulnerable group of children, writes the president of the Association of Directors of Children ...