Browsing: Councils

Local elections could be delayed again as merging councils lack the capacity for reorganisation, the government has announced, triggering claims from opposition parties that Labour is…

Three London councils have reported a cyber-attack, prompting the rollout of emergency plans and the involvement of the National Crime Agency (NCA) as they investigate whether…

Reform UK has ignored requests to share the evidence for its claim to have saved £331m since it took charge of 10 English councils in May,…

Two-thirds of councils in England have not prosecuted a single landlord in the past three years, despite receiving 300,000 complaints from desperate tenants living in unfit…

English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books,…

Xylia Legonas was just a few years off fully repaying her mortgage and had just finished refurbishing her house after a fire when someone knocked on…

The local government secretary, Steve Reed, is seeking to clamp down on councils introducing four-day working weeks after writing to South Cambridgeshire warning that the policy…

Labour-run councils have used a legal loophole to issue almost 200 families with no-fault eviction notices since the party was elected on a promise to ban…

Councils in England will still be poorer by the end of this parliament than they were in 2010 despite Labour’s funding increases, according to analysis by…

A local paper whose journalists have been ostracised by a Reform UK council is taking legal action, arguing the move is a breach of its right…