Middle-income households will be the hardest hit by planned government spending reductions on public services, an analysis for the Trades Union Congress has found.
Essex County Council has set out a three-year “invest to save” plan in order to ensure it can continue to provide public services while also balancing its budget.
The general election delivered a clear result. The Conservatives can now implement their manifesto pledges to build on the last government’s work on public sector reform
The Public Service Ombudsman for Wales should have extra powers, including the ability to initiate investigations without having first received a complaint, a review has concluded.
Trade union Unison today warned that council-run services such as youth centres, museums and pest controls will close across England if the next government implements the fiscal plan set out in March...
When it comes to countering fraud and other harmful, high-risk behaviours, such as corruption, money laundering, asset misappropriation and cyber-crime, organisations need to ensure their staff have...
Savings from IT are obvious when the criminal courts and CPS devour 15 times the height of Snowdon in paper every year. But legal processes must be updated too, or the result is ‘mess for less...
The commissioners appointed to take over the executive functions of Rotherham council have set out the decision-making process that will apply during the intervention at the authority.
There are strong reasons for profit capping and sharing in outsourcing deals, including bolstering moves to introduce universal accounting standards for all public service contracts. However, there...
Councils should create local versions of the government’s so-called ‘nudge unit’ in a bid to cut the demand for services amid a spending squeeze on town halls, a report has claimed...
Just one in ten local government bosses are confident that their council can protect frontline services in the face of continued austerity over the next five years, a PwC poll has found.
Sir Derek Myers speaks to Public Finance about the recommendations of the Service Transformation Challenge Panel, how to spread reforms across the public sector, and his priorities as lead...
A proportion of tobacco duties should be given to local authorities to fund the cost of cleaning up cigarettes and other litter, the House of Commons’ communities and local government committee...
Ministers have confirmed the 2015/16 local government finance settlement, delivering a further £74m to upper-tier authorities for additional support with social care and welfare needs.
As councils move from doing things to making things happen, they need to harness the power of new technology to deliver the best possible services for local citizens
Public services need to be turned on their head, so they start from people and their needs rather than universal entitlements. We have to manage demand while generating better social value
The chancellor will no doubt find some additional funding for flood defences in this month’s Budget. Perhaps he should be taking the same approach when it comes to other critical services
Hard fiscal reality means that managing surging demand for public services is the name of the game. This requires whole systems thinking and radical innovation by public bodies
Public services in Northern Ireland are not subject to the burning platform of fiscal meltdown currently being experienced by English local government. But leaders in the province are taking this as...
Attempts to share or outsource public services often end in tears. So how can councils avoid negative headlines and ensure that their projects deliver the projected savings and objectives?
