Councillors are angry over Whitehall's U-turn on its decision to cancel elections in three areas.

Patterns of cloud adoption across the UK public sector are anecdotally far from uniform, with central government bodies notably further ahead of their local government counterparts. But with Whitehall ...

Head of Public Affairs Matt Browne puts local government reforms under the spotlight, in search of vanished promises on nature recovery.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has introduced the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) to give local authorities new decision-making powers. The ...

Both Northamptonshire councils have once again been frozen out from creating a 'South Midlands' mayoral authority by some of their neighbours. The authorities could risk being isolated in a devolution ...

As councils prepare to share plans with the government about how they could be reorganised, an even bigger change is on the horizon - joining up these new local councils to create one big devolved ...

The combined authority is formally established ahead of its first mayoral election in 2027 ...

It's just over a year since the government published a white paper, setting out plans for English devolution involving combined authorities with regional mayors. Local authorities were given just a ...

The Northamptonshire councils have suffered another blow in their attempts to secure a devolution deal for the region, as the government has greyed out the county in newly released plans for larger ...

Portsmouth City Council has signed off plans for a combined authority covering Hampshire to Parliament for approval.