The Improvement and Development Agency (Idea) has signed a ground-breaking deal to provide an e-procurement portal that could create one of the 'largest marketplaces in Europe'.
The government is to abolish the present system of local authority capital controls in favour of proposals in the green paper on local government finance.
Nearly one in five further education colleges is facing financial problems, despite £3bn being pumped into the sector by the government, according to an all-party committee of MPs.
Plans by four councils to experiment with all-postal ballots to increase voter turnout at local elections could be scuppered by the imminent General Election
Local authorities may be set to receive £44bn in next year's finance settlement, an inflation-busting increase of 6.7% but, with two different funding options on offer, 47 councils are left more in...
On December 11, managers at the London Borough of Hackney will learn whether the current crisis caused by a gaping hole in the budget will be compounded by a mass walkout of council staff.
Councils have been placed at the forefront of transforming run-down city centres in the biggest shake-up in British urban regeneration policies for almost 25 years.
Nearly half of English councils have increased their rents by more than the government's recommended level, according to a Local Government Association report.
In politics, appearance is everything. With a general election looming, ministers have their beady eyes trained on the all-important National Health Service.
Health Secretary Alan Milburn ushered Best Value into the NHS last week, abandoning almost two decades of compulsory market testing in support services such as cleaning and catering.
A supervision and surveillance scheme designed to curb the country's worst young offenders will do little to reduce youth crime, probation officers warned this week.
Local authorities are gearing up for annual spending spats with schools after the government backed down on its threat for direct education funding in this week's finance green paper.
Dot.com companies could soon be processing passport applications, driving licences and even benefits under plans to allow the private and voluntary sectors to deliver on-line government services.
The Local Government Association joined this week's manifesto frenzy in an attempt to halt the government's drive to marginalise councils in the run-up to the General Election.
The public sector has a serious image problem which is discouraging young people from seeing it as a worthwhile career and creating a recruitment crisis, according to the chief executive of the King'...
Local government leaders are savouring a small but significant victory in their long-running turf war with Westminster over control of frontline services.
Leader of the Commons Margaret Beckett has rejected claims that the government manipulates the selection of MPs for select committee posts to ensure minimum opposition from backbenchers.
The government's vision of town halls delivering services to the public via the Internet and digital TV will fail without further funding, local government leaders have warned.
The Local Government Association's Labour group has won approval for a series of key policy amendments from Labour's National Policy Forum (NPF). The amendments were put forward to the NPF, which was...
