27/03/2017 - 11:03
South Lanarkshire Council has launched a competition offering the chance to win a year’s free council tax for those who signed up to pay for council tax by direct debit by 1 April.
27/03/2017 - 10:43
The Local Government Association (LGA) has urged the government to allow local authorities to ban pavement parking across the country to crack down on inconsiderate motorists.
24/03/2017 - 12:52
The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned that people need to be more aware of modern slavery, after figures have shown council referrals of potential victims have soared by 78 per cent.
24/03/2017 - 12:35
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has advised that the government can make substantial savings from buying common goods and services centrally, but that the results of the its latest attempt to do so have been ‘disappointing’.
24/03/2017 - 12:20
UK police data has revealed that English council elections attracted the most electoral fraud reports in 2016, twice as many as the EU referendum.
24/03/2017 - 11:33
Swindon Council has set aside £600,000 over the next three years to help improve educational outcomes set out in its Swindon Challenge strategy.
24/03/2017 - 11:20
Official statistics have shown that council tax in England is on average £171 higher than that of Wales.
23/03/2017 - 11:08
The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for ‘full flexibility’ in how they use the £2 billion in new social care funding announced in the Budget, ahead of guidance due to be published by government on how it should be spent.
23/03/2017 - 10:32
The Local Government Association (LGA) has launched a 16-week programme in partnership with the Design Council to support six local authorities in London with inventing workable solutions to high priority issues affecting their local communities.
23/03/2017 - 10:14
The Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and Arts Council England has announced that 30 local authorities’ libraries services from across the country will receive a total of £3.9 million from the Libraries Opportunities for Everyone Innovation fund.
23/03/2017 - 10:02
Christchurch Borough Council has voted in favour of a proposed referendum on local government reorganisation in Dorset.
23/03/2017 - 09:50
Edinburgh City Council has been criticised for the way it handled complaints about a poster advertising scheme, introduced in 2003.
