Urgent steps must be taken to plug the funding gap in adult social care if councils are to continue to provide dignified care for elderly and disabled people, senior local government figures warned...
Unprotected Whitehall spending in areas such as local government could be cut by around 27% in the forthcoming Spending Review, an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
The government’s flagship Troubled Families scheme should be expanded to integrate public services for people facing social problems including homelessness, criminality and substance misuse, a think-...
David Cameron today set out a wide-ranging package of reforms to create a “smarter state”, with widespread devolution, a focus on early intervention, and integration of blue light services among the...
Local authorities and the voluntary and community sector serve the same communities and individuals. As further government cuts are likely in the Spending Review, it is in their mutual interest to...
If the forthcoming government Spending Review was able to protect three key areas of local government funding, councils would be better placed to respond to a range of cost pressures
Local transport infrastructure is in line to take a large proportion of government cuts in the forthcoming Spending Review because funding for national road and rail networks is essentially...
The new chair of the County Councils Network has called for the forthcoming Spending Review to put local authority finance on a more sustainable footing.
The government’s four-year plan to cut public spending by £20bn will be published on 25 November, George Osborne has announced, with unprotected Whitehall departments being asked to...
The UK’s major cities have issued a joint call for a more local, place-based approach to public spending to form part of the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review.
Government moves to increase the flexibility that councils have over spending Whitehall grants have made it more difficult to assess the value of town hall spending, the National Audit Office said...
The Spending Review provided evidence that the coalition is starting to think more radically, and attack some tougher fiscal targets. There must be no let up in this approach
There is no need to limit this week's Spending Review to one year or to have it so early. These decision are caused by the desire of the two coalition parties not to tie themselves together ahead of...
Having severely cut Departmental Expenditure Limits, the Chancellor promised in the Budget to cap Annually Managed Expenditure. He should go further in the Spending Review and rethink the DEL/AME...
Another six Whitehall departments, including the Home Office, have reached agreement with the Treasury on spending cuts for 2015/16 ahead of the June 26 Spending Review, it has been announced.
