The government has been warned that plans to expand Heathrow Airport could breach its climate change laws.

Northampton Borough Council has apologised over its handling of a loan to Northampton Town Football Club, after a report by its internal auditor Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC), described the council’s management as ‘inadequate’.

County Durham Council has claimed that resolving a dispute over teaching assistants pay would cost millions of pounds and ‘hundreds of jobs’.

Health and social care leaders and the Local Government Association (LGA) have condemned Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s Autumn Statement as a missed opportunity to announce new investment in care.

Broxtowe Borough Council is being investigated by police, following a possible mass data breach.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has issued a statement warning people to ensure they are prepared for flash flooding, after Storm Angus hit numerous parts of the country.

The Autumn Statement saw Chancellor Philip Hammond vow to make the UK economy ‘resilient’, despite its decision to leave the EU and has forecasted a higher borrowing and slower growth.

New research has claimed that 64 per cent of London’s councils have experienced a data breach in the last four years.
A freedom of information request sent to all 32 London boroughs by digital identity management company Secure Cloudlink found that 21 out of the 31 authorities who responded have reported a data breach in the past four years.
Bexley, Bromley, Ealing, Enfield and Haringey are among those that reported no breaches, while Kensington & Chelsea and Hackney councils refused to disclose any information.

The final councils have backed plans for the £800 million devolution deal for the Cambridge and Peterborough to go ahead.

A new report has argued that the quality of adult social care has declined as a result of increased privatisation in the sector.
The Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI) has argued that despite 41 per cent of community-based and residential social care having been found by the Care Quality Commission to be inadequate or requiring improvement since 2014, it has no power to intervene to prevent a company from collapsing.