Local authorities will get new powers next month to force landlords to rent out persistently empty high street properties.

A petition urging Haringey Council not to scrap daily parking permits for visitors has received 3,700 signatures.

Warrington Council has announced a ban on all 'non-essential' travel and recruitment as it tries to avoid bankruptcy. The ...

Youth club closures between 2010 and 2019 led to higher rates of crime and worse educational outcomes, a report has found.

Leicester City Council has refused part of the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman’s recommendation to pay a homeless ...

A 2,000-year-old section of Roman road has been uncovered directly beneath Old Kent Road. Watling Street was built shortly ...

Migrants working in adult social care have reported facing unsustainable working hours, ‘demoralising’ financial insecurity, ...

Cheshire East Council has been fined £500,000 after admitting breaches of health and safety legislation that led to a dog ...

A third of young people in council care were placed in accommodation more than 20 miles from their local area last year, a ...

Rachel Reeves is set to announce plans to encourage consolidation among local government pension funds to reduce costs and ...

Social care costs for working-age adults and those with a lifelong disability could reach £17bn by 2030, according to new ...

An umbrella body is pushing for the Welsh Government to help plug a £559m funding gap so councils do not have to make ...