Councils will be allowed to increase council tax by six per cent over the next two years in order to fund social care services.

Major relationship support providers may not be sufficiently reaching families in or at risk of poverty, a new report claims.

The latest Help to Buy statistics have shown that over 220,000 people have been able to buy a home using the government scheme.

More must be done to the address the imbalance in arts funding between London and the rest of the country, a report suggests.

Jeremy Corbyn has claimed that the lack of social care funding leaving elderly people isolated is a ‘crisis made in Downing Street’.

A new survey has revealed that 60 per cent of HR directors would like a new style of leadership to help them deliver a better quality of service.

Powers over licensing are to return to Rotherham council, but government-appointed commissioners will continue to oversee these decisions.

According to the Office for National Statistics, UK unemployment fell by 16,000 to 1.62 million in the three months to October.

The Local Government Ombudsman has issued new guidance to help combined authorities deal with the complaints they receive.

Barnet and Harrow Councils have agreed to extend their shared legal service to deliver legal services to both councils for a further five years.

A new report has said that the rollout of the UK's future 5G mobile network must be handled better than 4G.

Nearly 90 per cent of local authorities believe that current housing targets will be impossible to meet because of a lack of planning resources.

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Event Diary

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UKREiiF has quickly become a must-attend in the industry calendar for Government departments and local authorities.

The organisers of the world’s largest dedicated hydrogen event, World Hydrogen 2024 Summit & Exhibition have announced it’s return to Rotterdam in May 2024, with an expansion of a whole extra summit day. Sustainable Energy Council (SEC) are partnering with the Government of the Netherlands, the Province of Zuid-Holland, the City of Rotterdam, and the Port of Rotterdam to host an extended, larger scale Summit in 2024, to expand the event to meet the surging demand.