The Government will need to write off the debts of failing councils if they want reorganisation, a prominent county leader has claimed.
Essex is among the frontrunners...
The Government has failed to explain how its pledge to ‘protect' councils from the £0.5bn cost of National Insurance increases will be funded.
According to figures...
Plans for full local government reorganisation could be mooted as soon as this week's Budget, The MJ understands.
Details of plans for a complete overhaul of...
York City Council has topped a list of the top ten most productive top tier councils in England, according to calculations by consultancy IMPOWER.
The IMPOWER...
Best Value inspectors sent into Tower Hamlets LBC have been personally threatened with legal action by the council, The MJ understands.
The council is challenging...
The public sector is sometimes extraordinary, rising to all sorts of challenges on a daily basis.
On Friday 6 September, it peaked – quite literally – when around...
When two-year-old Awaab Ishak tragically lost his life due to mould and damp in his parent's Rochdale housing association home, the shock reverberated around the...
The non-executive directors of what was the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have all been sacked by the new Government, sweeping out the old...