The organisations that will oversee £400bn of council pension fund assets need to learn how to box clever when under attack, ...

Miatta Fahnbulleh has been appointed devolution minister at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Ministerial portfolios were confirmed by the department this afternoon with ...

Four of the six surviving pools outlined their approach to external and internal investment management at the LGC Investment & Pensions Summit.

Thurrock Council and Rochford DC have each produced a different four-unitary configuration for Essex, bringing the total number business cases for the government to consider to four. Last week Essex ...

The new communities secretary has told councils he is committed to his predecessor’s policy programme, including local government reorganisation “swiftly ...

The government reshuffle gives MHCLG ministers a chance to think afresh on key reforms, writes the associate dean, School of ...

Alison McGovern has announced that she will be local government and homelessness minister, but portfolios for the other two ...

Talks in Kent and Medway to find consensus over local government reorganisation proposals have resulted in several separate ...

Two rival proposals for local government reorganisation in Hampshire have been developed after the county and one district ...

LGC editor Sarah Calkin looks at what may have driven Jim McMahon’s departure from government, and what it might mean for ...

A new survey has revealed the public’s lack of confidence in local government to put their interests first when resolving ...

Reform group leader for the Local Government Association fears local government reorganisation is an "absolutely disaster ...