Local government will need to develop a ‘new narrative’ with the public, Sir Merrick Cockell tells LG Communications 2013 [...]

Government pays too little attention to place when it comes to economic growth, claims cities minister Greg Clark [...]

Forget local government reorganisation and financial reform and concentrate on growth, Lord Heseltine tells The MJ Growth Agenda [...]

Time and time again, the real barriers to community budgets have turned out to be at the Whitehall level, says Heather Jameson [...]

Plans for a new finance regime for London, calling for more autonomy for the mayor and the boroughs have been unveiled by Tony Travers [...]

Heather Jameson reports on how the LGA plans to take local government through the financial crisis [...]

Conservative councillors have held control of the Local Government Association (LGA) following last week’s local elections – but only by the slimmest of majorities [...]

Councils will start to fail their local communities if action is not taken to make their finances more stable, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned [...]

Chief executives association SOLACE has hit back at the Taxpayers’ Alliance annual ‘town hall rich list’ which claimed at least 2,525 staff were paid more than £100,000 in 2011-12 [...]

It would be easy to be cynical about the LGA's submission to the spending review, says Heather Jameson [...]