A report has confirmed that 98% of councils do not think the Crisis and Resilience Fund (CRF) will fulfil local needs.

Mayors Andy Burnham and Kim McGuinness have signed an open letter urging Government to guarantee all adult social care ...

The PM has declined calls for an investigation after Chancellor Reeves apologised for renting out her family home without a ...

An investigation by a council’s trading standards team has found former care home bosses guilty of having ‘financially abused ...

Councils have been forced to shell out £9.5m on Government intervention over the last four years, research by The MJ has ...

Proposals around council tax in the fair funding review could actually have a detrimental impact on more deprived areas of ...

The NAO has warned that reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system must address growing ...

London’s town halls are warning of 'inevitable' service cuts and growing financial crisis as new analysis reveals a £4bn ...

Enabling mayors in England to levy tourist taxes could pave the way for greater fiscal devolution, a think-tank has suggested ...

A third of young people in England who approached their local authority for help in 2023/24 were not assessed under the ...

The Government could reduce the number of children growing up in poverty by an estimated 330,000 if it scrapped the two-child ...

Report author and senior Localis researcher, Sandy Forsyth, said: ‘The key argument of Ride the Wave is that for the ...