Councils must act quickly to knock down the ‘anti-vax mob’ as the Government puts the sector at the heart of its strategy to tackle coronavirus, a senior public health chief has urged.
Local Government Association (LGA) chairman Cllr James Jamieson has announced he will step down as leader of Central Bedfordshire Council.
Government ambitions for levelling up depend on councils being given funds to fulfil local recovery plans, the All Party Parliamentary Group on devolution has been told.
Opportunities to protect children at risk of harm are being missed due to the pandemic, Ofsted has warned.
Edinburgh City Council should do more to ‘fulfil its potential,’ auditors have said.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £4bn levelling up fund as part of a Spending Review which he claimed offered ‘huge investment’ in jobs, public services and infrastructure.
Councils have been reminded to regularly update their monthly financial returns to Whitehall after stretched teams were caught submitting the same numbers each time.
Auditors have delayed signing off Thanet DC’s 2019/20 accounts while they investigate the council’s use of gagging orders in resolving grievances.
Councils that want to use the new £170m COVID winter grant scheme to stop children going hungry during school holidays may need more cash, the Government has been told.
An inquiry examining what approach Whitehall should take to funding local government as part of upcoming spending review has been launched by MPs.
Decisions on local coronavirus restrictions should be made locally, a top World Health Organisation official has urged.
An investment manager for local authority pension funds has invested £150m in private rental housing provider Get Living.
More than a million people have stopped smoking since the start of the coronavirus crisis, new figures have revealed.
Nearly a third of young people with mental health problems lost access to support due to the coronavirus crisis, research has revealed.
The race towards reorganisation is gaining pace more plans emerging in Somerset and Surrey – while south Essex says it wants to keep its districts.
Michael Burton catches up with John Denham, former communities minister, for his views on his old department, Total Place and localism.
Tower Hamlets LBC’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme is surging ahead, with financial contracts closed for four schools over the past four months.
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