The new chief executive of Lancashire County Council has described it as a ”privilege” to take up the top job, while admitting that it was “not ideal” that she did not have the full backing of elected members.
The man who decides how Lancashire's adult social services budget is spent says the money could be better used by providing more appropriate care - and not more care in total.
The public sector workers union has blasted as a 'terrible decision' the announcement that a £104m contract for healthcare services in Lancashire has been awarded to private firm Virgin.
Lancashire County Council has received just £10,000 of area-wide funding to help it deliver the government’s anti-terrorism strategy, a committee of councillors has heard.
A newspaper published by South Ribble Council will appear only once in the run-up to next year’s local elections, after plans to produce three editions before polling day were scrapped.
Councillors will decide today whether Lancashire County Council should continue to supply its schools with meat which has not been stunned prior to slaughter.
An ‘extraordinary meeting’ of South Ribble Council lived up to its name when the Conservative-led authority installed a Labour leader to run the borough.
A Lancashire county councillor says the “psychological” importance of familiar surroundings should not be overlooked when decisions are made about proposed changes to children’s centres in the region.
Health and social care workers have only the first thousand days of a child’s life to make a real difference to its future - if the youngster’s parents are struggling.
Residents of an apartment block in Leyland say that the private car park in front of their homes should not be used as an access road for a new development next door.
Community transport operators in some parts of Lancashire will have to “revisit their business plans” to deal with a reduction in funding, the leader of Lancashire County Council has said.
Work to create a single path providing access to Lancashire’s coast shows no sign of being started – nearly a year after proposals for the route were due to be put forward.
