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23 Nov 21
Cuts to early years and youth support services have led to a “crisis in child vulnerability” with worse outcomes for children and higher long-run costs for the government, a House of Lords committee...
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9 Jun 21
The lack of a multi-year funding settlement for local government has left Hampshire County Council with a £80m shortfall in the next two years, it says.
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14 May 20
As austerity continues to eat into education budgets, schools are coming up with creative ways to top up their money. Neil Merrick investigates.
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25 Feb 20
A decade of austerity is to blame for life expectancy in England stagnating for the first time in more than 100 years, according to a new report.
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25 Feb 20
Funding for local health watchdogs has reached the “bottom of the barrel” due to council funding struggles, the health secretary has been told.
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26 Nov 19
The Conservative manifesto risks child poverty hitting a 60-year high in the UK, a think-tank has warned.
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9 Jul 19
Comptroller and auditor general Gareth Davies has praised local authorities for their management of finances and funding amid the period of austerity.
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3 Jul 19
The majority of local government finance officers have lost confidence in their future financial positions over the last year, a CIPFA survey has revealed.
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22 May 19
An “ideological” pursuit of austerity has replaced the Britain’s social safety net with a “harsh and uncaring ethos”, according to the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip...
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14 May 19
Councils are having to restructure services in the face of the most “intense cuts without parallel in modern times”, MPs have heard.
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11 Apr 19
We don’t consider how policy decisions affect women disproportionately, but giving councils fiscal flexibility can help to ease the pain, writes Bethanie Roughley.
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5 Apr 19
How austerity and the dismantling of ‘Stalinist’ regional aid has divided an entire country. Peter Hetherington reports.
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21 Feb 19
Austerity has “exacerbated” economic inequalities and household GDP has been hit by an average £3,600 this year, analysis has shown.
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28 Jan 19
Northern cities have been hit by the biggest budget cuts as a result of austerity, a think-tank has found.
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28 Nov 18
It’s a political choice that a fifth of our population live in poverty, says Mary-Ann Stephenson, director of the Women’s Budget Group. It is time for the government to acknowledge its mistakes and...
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22 Nov 18
Public sector accountants need to start shouting out about what is happening in their sector locally in such a way that their voices are heard nationally, argues the WLGA’s Debbie Wilcox....
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14 Nov 18
If we are to stand any chance of breaking the ‘necklace of neglect’ encircling swathes of the UK, we need a heavy-hitting minister to fight for a non-metropolitan urban agenda, says Peter...
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30 Oct 18
Philip Hammond’s Budget offered ‘sticking-plaster funding’ with no sustainable solution for local government.
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30 Oct 18
The chancellor hasn’t ended austerity. And he’s also missed the opportunity to have an honest conversation with the public about how he plans to pay for public services, says the Institute for...
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29 Oct 18
Philip Hammond faced up to some political and economic conundrums in his first Autumn Budget. Former Treasury adviser Dan Corry considers how well he passed the test.
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29 Oct 18
The chancellor told the Commons austerity is “coming to an end” today, announcing funding boosts for the Ministry of Defence to the tune of £1bn and adult social care of £650m.
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26 Oct 18
The end of austerity is unlikely to happen any time soon without tax increases - but what would be helpful is an overhaul of the current spending review framework, says CIPFA’s Alan Bermingham.
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24 Oct 18
Plans to end austerity will cost £31bn over the next five years, a think-tank has estimated.
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22 Oct 18
Devolution offers a solution to mitigate local government’s powers being stripped back to ‘core offers’ focused on social care but it needs funding to do so, says IPPR North’s Anna Round.
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9 Oct 18
Fiscal devolution and a reconfiguration of political economy in localities will become the battleground of domestic policy in the post-Brexit general election, argues Jonathan Werran.
23 Nov 21Cuts to early years and youth support services have led to a “crisis in child vulnerability” with worse outcomes for children and higher long-run costs for the government, a House of Lords committee...
9 Jun 21The lack of a multi-year funding settlement for local government has left Hampshire County Council with a £80m shortfall in the next two years, it says.
14 May 20As austerity continues to eat into education budgets, schools are coming up with creative ways to top up their money. Neil Merrick investigates.
25 Feb 20A decade of austerity is to blame for life expectancy in England stagnating for the first time in more than 100 years, according to a new report.
25 Feb 20Funding for local health watchdogs has reached the “bottom of the barrel” due to council funding struggles, the health secretary has been told.
9 Jul 19Comptroller and auditor general Gareth Davies has praised local authorities for their management of finances and funding amid the period of austerity.
3 Jul 19The majority of local government finance officers have lost confidence in their future financial positions over the last year, a CIPFA survey has revealed.
22 May 19An “ideological” pursuit of austerity has replaced the Britain’s social safety net with a “harsh and uncaring ethos”, according to the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip...
14 May 19Councils are having to restructure services in the face of the most “intense cuts without parallel in modern times”, MPs have heard.
11 Apr 19We don’t consider how policy decisions affect women disproportionately, but giving councils fiscal flexibility can help to ease the pain, writes Bethanie Roughley.
5 Apr 19How austerity and the dismantling of ‘Stalinist’ regional aid has divided an entire country. Peter Hetherington reports.
21 Feb 19Austerity has “exacerbated” economic inequalities and household GDP has been hit by an average £3,600 this year, analysis has shown.
28 Jan 19Northern cities have been hit by the biggest budget cuts as a result of austerity, a think-tank has found.
22 Nov 18Public sector accountants need to start shouting out about what is happening in their sector locally in such a way that their voices are heard nationally, argues the WLGA’s Debbie Wilcox....
14 Nov 18If we are to stand any chance of breaking the ‘necklace of neglect’ encircling swathes of the UK, we need a heavy-hitting minister to fight for a non-metropolitan urban agenda, says Peter...
30 Oct 18Philip Hammond’s Budget offered ‘sticking-plaster funding’ with no sustainable solution for local government.
30 Oct 18The chancellor hasn’t ended austerity. And he’s also missed the opportunity to have an honest conversation with the public about how he plans to pay for public services, says the Institute for...
29 Oct 18Philip Hammond faced up to some political and economic conundrums in his first Autumn Budget. Former Treasury adviser Dan Corry considers how well he passed the test.
29 Oct 18The chancellor told the Commons austerity is “coming to an end” today, announcing funding boosts for the Ministry of Defence to the tune of £1bn and adult social care of £650m.
26 Oct 18The end of austerity is unlikely to happen any time soon without tax increases - but what would be helpful is an overhaul of the current spending review framework, says CIPFA’s Alan Bermingham.
9 Oct 18Fiscal devolution and a reconfiguration of political economy in localities will become the battleground of domestic policy in the post-Brexit general election, argues Jonathan Werran.
