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The Emissions Trading Scheme could end up costing councils up to £6.5bn by 2036, the Local Government Association has warned.

Will ministers continue to champion metro mayors when the political landscape fragments amid ratcheting tensions with ...

Strategic authorities will need to work closely with colleges and employers to co-design local skills improvement plans and ...

Union officials will meet conciliation service Acas next week in a bid to end Birmingham’s long-running waste dispute. Talks ...

Salford City Council is returning the delivery of some adult social care services for more than 800 residents back in house.

Reform UK’s mayoral candidates for the new mayoralties in Greater Lincolnshire and Hull & East Yorkshire have clear leads ...

The body representing senior local authority officers has welcomed the 3.2% pay increase offered to its members by employers.

Council staff have been offered a 3.2% pay rise in what employers are describing as a “full and final” offer. The increase ...

Politicians in Cumbria have said any devolution deal must include adequate funding to address years of underinvestment. In ...

Leaders in Surrey have ruled out a county-wide unitary despite a suggestion from the government to include the option in ...

Two of the three unions representing local government staff have said they are considering the pay offer which rejected most ...