Councils will be given funding earmarked for the creation of free schools to deliver specialist places for children with ...

Councillors at Swale Borough Council were threatened and pelted with eggs by balaclava wearing protesters from the public ...

Animal welfare charities and campaigners, including the RSPCA, are urging councils to stop using reindeer in their Christmas ...

Gateshead Council has awarded two IT infrastructure contracts worth £4.5m in total to a local company to boost digital ...

A boil water notice has been lifted in Tunbridge Wells following the water outage that was declared a major incident.

A cross-government plan to ‘end homelessness for good’ by preventing it before it occurs has been launched, backed by £3.5bn ...

Councils ‘drive forward prosperity’ across England by generating £117bn annually for local economies, research has found.

A further £60m is to be invested in a Richer Young Lives Fund to provide youth work and activities aimed at disadvantaged ...

Councils are concerned that the most vulnerable families are missing out on benefits of their holiday activity and food (HAF) ...

Three mayoral combined authorities are to receive £500,000 each to find ways locally to tackle inequality among children.

Bristol City Council has called for the public’s help in identifying people who may have been connected to a ‘high-value burglary’ of museum artefacts.

Further evidence has emerged that councils are either holding back or diverting money that is earmarked for the early years ...