A DNA test has confirmed that a baby found abandoned in a shopping bag in Newham is biologically related to two other babies ...

The historic county hall used by Westmorland and Furness Council as the local authority’s headquarters is set to close for ...

One in four local councils in England spent 5% of their core budgets on temporary accommodation in 2022-23, new research has ...

Blackpool Council has welcomed the lifting of a government directive requiring the local authority to improve its children’s ...

Barking and Dagenham Council leader Darren Rodwell has been removed from the list of candidates being considered by the ...

In the first of our NextGov series, Andy Smith, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS), ...

The Liberal Democrats have pledged to make free personal care available at home for older or disabled people if they win the ...

Using community power to tackle polarisation requires ‘going deeper and deeper until some of the falsehoods clear out’, New ...

Image: Sandor Szmutko / Shutterstock.com. Seven Labour councillors in Slough have resigned from the party citing as the reason the treatment of Faiza Shaheen and Diane Abbot and the party’s position ...

Derbyshire County Council and Derby City Council are formerly in dispute over a £94m bill for a share in a waste treatment facility. Last year, the councils decided to fix and operate a waste ...

Mark Roebuck, founder of ProvePrivacy, explains how councils struggling to keep up with data regulation adherence demands ...

Council staff and members often live ‘in fear of abuse, assault or worse,’ experts have warned. A study by the Association ...