Councillors are angry over Whitehall's U-turn on its decision to cancel elections in three areas.

Head of Public Affairs Matt Browne puts local government reforms under the spotlight, in search of vanished promises on nature recovery.

Patterns of cloud adoption across the UK public sector are anecdotally far from uniform, with central government bodies notably further ahead of their local government counterparts. But with Whitehall ...

The Cumbria Combined Authority (CCA) and the Cheshire & Warrington Combined Authority have been officially created this week, ...

The combined authority is formally established ahead of its first mayoral election in 2027 ...

Both Northamptonshire councils have once again been frozen out from creating a 'South Midlands' mayoral authority by some of their neighbours. The authorities could risk being isolated in a devolution ...

Housing secretary Angela Rayner said the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill would "bring decision-making to a local level".

Portsmouth City Council has signed off plans for a combined authority covering Hampshire to Parliament for approval.

It's just over a year since the government published a white paper, setting out plans for English devolution involving combined authorities with regional mayors. Local authorities were given just a ...

No promises have been made that Surrey will get full devolution and a directly elected mayor - despite it being the ‘entire purpose’ of the lengthy and arduous process of splitting the historic county ...