Councillors are angry over Whitehall's U-turn on its decision to cancel elections in three areas.

Patterns of cloud adoption across the UK public sector are anecdotally far from uniform, with central government bodies notably further ahead of their local government counterparts. But with Whitehall ...

Head of Public Affairs Matt Browne puts local government reforms under the spotlight, in search of vanished promises on nature recovery.

The Cumbria Combined Authority (CCA) and the Cheshire & Warrington Combined Authority have been officially created this week, after statutory ...

The leaders of two Labour controlled councils have called for May's local elections to be scrapped because of Lancashire devolution. Blackburn with Darwen Council and Hyndburn Council have held ...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has introduced the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) to give local authorities new decision-making powers. The ...

Both Northamptonshire councils have once again been frozen out from creating a 'South Midlands' mayoral authority by some of their neighbours. The authorities could risk being isolated in a devolution ...

As the county’s devolution journey heads for the finishing line, the government has carried out the process of laying a Statutory Instrument in Parliament. This means that, once approved by the House ...

Portsmouth City Council has signed off plans for a combined authority covering Hampshire to Parliament for approval.