Could housing associations do more to boost efficiency in the age of austerity? Waqar Ahmed thinks so. But the group finance director at L&Q tells PF that the government must do its bit too
Local government minister Bob Neill has defended Whitehall plans to support councils that are hit by falling business rates once the regime is localised.
The Local Government Ombudsman must ‘raise its game’ to ensure it retains ‘authority and credibility’ as the independent arbitrator of disputes over council services, MPs have said.
Attempts to improve the performance of the UK Border Agency have been hampered by incoherent planning and the delayed delivery of a key IT project, it has been revealed today.
Transport Secretary Justine Greening today outlined plans for £4.2bn of new investment in Britain’s railways, including the extension of electrification across the network.
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has hit out at the Department for Work and Pensions after its accounts were qualified for the 24th successive year.
Government reforms will cut the cost of public sector pensions by 40% over the next 50 years, according to forecasts published by the Office of Budget Responsibility today.
Funding cuts are diminishing the public sector’s ability to respond to major incidents such as extreme weather or data loss, according to a survey of finance directors.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills must improve its financial management to meet the ‘substantial challenges’ of spending cuts and other public sector reforms, the National Audit...
The Local Government Association and Unison have both rejected fresh claims from the Taxpayers’ Alliance that pensions for council workers are unaffordable.
Reforms to the system of adult social care to be unveiled today by the government represent the ‘best opportunity in a generation’ to improve care for the elderly, the Local Government Association...
Fixing potholes and improving local roads should be the top priority of local authorities, according to a survey that also highlighted the need to improve adult social care services.
There is ‘not a snowball’s chance in hell’ that the government will reach the statutory target to eradicate child poverty by 2020, former Labour minister Alan Milburn said today.
Working families with children have been dealt a ‘triple financial blow’ in the recession through cuts to tax credits and rising costs of childcare and transport, according to the Joseph Rowntree...
Around 25% of the early participants in the government’s flagship back-to-work scheme were off benefits after 36 weeks, figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions have revealed today.
Scotland’s government has urged UK Treasury ministers to plough back some of a multi-billion pound departmental underspend into capital projects capable of boosting jobs and growth in the Scottish...
