Community Budgets represent a 'step back' from the Total Place initiative begun under the previous government, Lord Bichard told CIPFA delegates in Birmingham yesterday.
Local authority spending in England has fallen for the first time since the introduction of the council tax in the early 1990s, according to figures published by the government and CIPFA today.
Audit fees are likely to increase and public confidence in the management of public money could be shaken following the abolition of the Audit Commission, the commission itself has warned
The project to replace England’s 46 local fire and rescue service control rooms with nine regional inter-linked centres was branded a 'comprehensive failure' by auditors today.
The government will press ahead with its public sector pension reforms even if its fails to reach agreement with the Trades Union Congress, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has told Public...
Only half of public sector finance directors played a lead role in preparing their organisation for the impact of the Spending Review, according to a survey published today.
Two hundred primary schools in England are to be taken out of local authority control and converted into academies in 2012/13, the education secretary announced today.
More than 650,000 public sector workers could take part in co-ordinated industrial action over pensions at the end of the month after a third union confirmed strike plans today