Cheshire East Council has been fined £500,000 after admitting breaches of health and safety legislation that led to a dog ...

Social care costs for working-age adults and those with a lifelong disability could reach £17bn by 2030, according to new ...

A 37-year-old woman who died after falling from a sixth-floor Hackney Council flat was trying to fix a blocked drainpipe, an ...

Image: Fred Duval / Shutterstock.com. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to announce plans to encourage more consolidation among ...

The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has called on Holyrood to pass on Whitehall cash due from changes to employers' ...

Adults who have served in the UK’s armed forces are almost twice as likely to have run out of food than those who have not, new research has found. According to anti-poverty charity Trussell, 27% of ...

The rise in national insurance announced in the Budget could be the ‘nail in the coffin’ for many organisations providing homelessness services, charities say.

South Cambridgeshire DC is holding back from permanently adopting a four-day working week despite winning the backing of ...

Local authority leaders in Scotland have offered to ‘supplement and enhance’ the latest pay offer to trade unions to prevent ...

The chief executive of the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman will retire in May. Nigel Ellis held the role for eight ...

Each project will get £150,000 from the Government’s Rural Transport Accelerator Fund, which supports the development of ...

Rayner, who today chaired the first meeting of the cross-government group on tackling homelessness, described homelessness as ...