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 ...

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

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 ...

Big changes are on the way to how one of England's most populous counties is run. In a couple of years' time, Essex is likely to have a directly-elected mayor overseeing a population of nearly 2 ...