National as well as local factors may be at play in the Care Quality Commission’s findings, writes Andrew Cozens, an ...

The Care Quality Commission has rated Blackpool BC's social care services with the first 'inadequate' rating in the country.

South Norfolk DC has warned plans to move single adult male asylum seekers into a local hotel despite angry protests could ...

Seven ‘homeless’ council pension funds have announced plans to join the Border to Coast pool. There are currently eight pools ...

The government’s replacement for the apprenticeship levy is a chance to modernise how we deliver training and apprenticeships ...

After 100 days in office, Ian Cooper (Ref) sees his role as Staffordshire CC leader like a "boring bank manager job" and is ...

Council leaders in Sussex are at loggerheads over the government's policy to force them to merge and create new unitaries. In ...

Head of content Kirsty Weakley on looking for the slivers of optimism in social care Today's news and views Wessex councils ...

LGC’s Councillors for the 21st Century campaign points to the help members of the unitary councils that are set to be formed ...

If council tax reform is off the table perhaps all we can do is learn to complain more creatively, writes Jonathan Werran, ...

Darren Grimes (Ref), deputy of leader of Durham CC, told LGC his party’s key priority is to settle the “care emergency” ...

The former head of the prisoner and probation service Amy Rees has landed the top role at Homes England. She will leave her ...