The Council of Europe's anti-corruption body has called on the UK to strengthen codes of conduct and integrity training for local councillors.

IDS authors argue there is an urgent need to rethink democracy by centring people, power, and inequality, and put forward eight building blocks to strengthen democracy and resist democratic decline.

Senior officers and commissioners at Birmingham City Council should be held to account for their ‘failures' at the under-intervention local authority, according...

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The National Audit Office said there had been “some progress” since last year, with the government having taken action to introduce the local audit

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Join us for this timely discussion of accountability & democracy under the Birmingham Council commissioner led intervention. BBS room 103.

A council fraud unit spent over two years investigating international fraud and no one knows what it cost

Join us for this timely discussion of accountability & democracy under the Birmingham Council commissioner led intervention. BBS room 103.

The government has published the names of 22 councils and one combined authority that missed the local audit backstop deadline. In a statement released

Making contact: connecting people with their representatives in Wales Helping people in Wales get the right message to the right representatives People across Wales contact their elected representat...

As council declares it’s ‘no longer bankrupt’, people say closure of services have added to social isolation and crime