More than 80,000 children and young people in England have waited over a year from community health appointments, according ...

Over the past few years, much of the debate around devolution has focused on structures, governance and organisational change ...

Readers of The MJ might be surprised to learn that the on-off nature of local government reorganisation is not solely a UK ...

Chief executive of Cornwall Council, Kate Kennally, has announced she is to step down from the role she has held for a decade. Kennally previously served as strategic director for commissioning and ...

Newcastle City Council chief executive Pam Smith has been announced as the next president of Solace, the body representing ...

Global majority council chiefs are leading their organisations at a time of heightened far right and anti-immigrant sentiment, magnified by debates over ‘small boats'. The level of exposure they face ...

Local government, as with almost every walk of modern life, has found itself heavily impacted by social media. Every council has a presence on the likes of Facebook or X (formerly Twitter), ...

When Keir Starmer appointed a new cabinet secretary in December 2024, he spoke of the need to ‘rewire the state': breaking ...

Shire counties are failing to match the economic growth of urban areas due to poor public transport and problems with digital ...

Poor planning for the pandemic in local government contributed to its devastating impact on adult social care, the Covid ...

While a clear government focus on social care is of course welcome, is anyone else a bit perturbed by the idea of a national ...