Council leaders have united to campaign against austerity only for the most deprived areas of the country.

A new report from UNISON has argued that public services support staff are doing more than 40 million hours of unpaid overtime a year.
We Can’t Go on Like This says that the sum of hours worked overtime, and unpaid, is the equivalent of 25,000 extra public service staff working full time and emphasises not only how far workers are prepared to go to keep services running efficiently but also the impact of years of job cuts.

Angela Rayner is set to tell the Labour Party conference in Liverpool that the current school system is ‘simply not fit for purpose’.

New workforce figures from Skills for Care have revealed that 110,000 jobs in adult care in England are currently left vacant.

Councils seeking to transform their public services through digital innovation can now apply to a new £7.5 million fund.

Local authorities have been encouraged to consider replacing high polluting vehicles with low-emission ones at the end of their working life.

An investigation into council spend has revealed large inconsistencies in how local councils keep and record information.

New research has found that, despite the collapse of Carillion, more than half of English council spending goes to a handful of the top suppliers.
Spend management company Ivalua sent freedom of information requests to English councils and revealed that an average of £52.5 million has been spent by councils on their top five suppliers in the last 12 months, equating to 55 per cent of their total spend.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has announced its ambition to convert its entire fleet to green vehicles.