Councils will receive a funding boost to deliver free childcare places, enabling parents to work more flexibly.
Councils have been awarded more than £500,000 for projects exploring the use of digital technology to improve local public services.
Climate change is set to influence the next election, with more than half Britons saying it will affect the way that they vote.
The West Midlands Combined Authority has teamed up with Google in the fight against climate change.
Politicians are readying themselves for a ‘once-in-a-generation’ General Election campaign after MPs voted for a 12 December poll.
The Children's Commissioner for Wales has said that young people should have been allowed to have their say in the upcoming General Election.
The Local Government Association and the National Association of Local Councils are collaborating to help local services better tackle loneliness.
Secondary school league tables continue to misrepresent the performance of schools by failing to take into account pupil background.
Bristol City Council could soon become the first city in the UK to ban diesel vehicles, if recommendations are approved by the cabinet.
A new report has established the full extent to which wealth, talent, trade and investment are concentrated in London and the South East.
More than 70 per cent of council bosses are expecting Brexit to have a 'negative' impact on their local economy.
Dame Judith Hackitt will provide independent advice to the government on how best to establish the powerful new Building Safety Regulator.
A new guide has been published with advice on how councils can use their unique position to attract private and foreign investment into local areas.
Academies and sixth form colleges can now bid for a share of more than £400 million to improve their school buildings.
£10 million of funding will enable councils to develop locally-led proposals to deliver more new towns on the scale of Milton Keynes.