Greater Manchester CA chief Caroline Simpson is set to lead Number 10 North, LGC understands. Former Greater Manchester CA mayor Andy Burnham has asked Ms ...

Councils need to "reset" their relationship with suppliers to improve procurement processes to take advantage of innovation, ...

Today’s National Audit Office report on devolution in England could hardly be more timely, coming in the week that PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham put devolution at the centre of his first major speech.

Andrew Seekings has announced he will retire as chief executive of Cumberland Council at the end of December after leading ...

Devon could have a mayor by next May, according to the county's leader and chief executive. Julian Brazil (Lib Dem), leader ...

The government’s long-awaited statutory guidance on the Local Government Pension Scheme has clarified the definition of local investment and said pools should decide whether to use passive or active ...

The government’s Send financial rescue package will only provide temporary relief without wider changes, councils have said as they submit reform plans. When the government announced reforms earlier ...

Suffolk CC has confirmed it will pursue a legal challenge to the government’s plans to reorganise the county. At a meeting ...

Norfolk CC chief executive Tom McCabe is leaving his post after seven and a half years as the county’s most senior officer.

Norfolk CC has begun a formal legal challenge to the government’s plans to reorganise the county. The council announced ...

Being a “completely new organisation” is both “the challenge and the profound opportunity”, Cheshire and Warrington CA’s chief executive told LGC last week. Speaking from an event to mark the launch ...

Baroness Louise Casey told a group of senior MPs that unless councils are "equal partners" alongside the NHS, social care ...