Local authorities across England are allowed to sell off playing fields to help close budget gaps, Angela Rayner says.

Voters are heading to the polls in parts of England to elect thousands of councillors against the backdrop of local ...

Local authority efforts to enforce animal welfare legislation are undermined by cost restraints, according to a report by the ...

District and borough councils across Surrey have published proposals for local government reorganisation, defying the ...

A record 165,510 children are now homeless and living in temporary accommodation, according to the latest homelessness ...

Social workers and other safeguarding professionals have called for an end to the physical punishment of children in England.

The Government is encouraging councils to work with the police to seize and crush vehicles used by waste criminals as part of ...

Public services are under £13.7bn worth of pressure due to the Government’s negligence in addressing hunger and hardship, ...

One in 6 adults have admitted to either falsely claiming the Single Person Discount (SPD) or knowing someone who had in the ...

More than six million properties in England are in areas that are at risk of flooding, the Climate Change Committee has ...

Local authorities are struggling to make the investment case for preventative digital care, according to a commission looking ...

Over 200,000 children could be in temporary accommodation by the end of this Parliament if more isn’t done to build social ...