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

Matthew Smith, Partner and Head of Public and Regulatory Law at Bates Wells, discusses a new law aimed at introducing a legal ...

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

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

A 37-year-old woman who died after falling from a sixth-floor Hackney Council flat was trying to fix a blocked drainpipe, an ...

The rise in national insurance announced in the Budget could be the ‘nail in the coffin’ for many organisations providing homelessness services, charities say.

The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has called on Holyrood to pass on Whitehall cash due from changes to employers' ...

Damage caused by badgers to a Lincolnshire road ‘has turned out to be much more severe than previously thought,’ the highway ...

Image: Fred Duval / Shutterstock.com. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to announce plans to encourage more consolidation among ...

Adults who have served in the UK’s armed forces are almost twice as likely to have run out of food than those who have not, new research has found. According to anti-poverty charity Trussell, 27% of ...

The chief executive of the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman will retire in May. Nigel Ellis held the role for eight ...

South Cambridgeshire DC is holding back from permanently adopting a four-day working week despite winning the backing of ...