The government has been urged to prepare an emergency action plan to protect services if local authorities run out of money amid wholesale changes to council funding.
There will be a full re-examination of levels of need in council areas as part of full devolution of business rates to authorities, a senior Department for Communities and Local Government figure has...
Local government funding cuts are to ease in the years to 2019/20 compared to the last parliament and will be more evenly distributed across authorities, an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal...
Plans to shake up the current business rates appeal process and protect councils from speculative appeals have been published for consultation by local government minister Marcus Jones.
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-...
It will be challenging for local authorities to implement the National Living Wage rate within the funding constraints of the government’s 1% cap on public sector pay increases, the Resolution...
The government has been urged to allow councils to join forces to take over regulation of bus services, as part of an effort to improve the effectiveness of public subsidies.
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.
Former Department for Communities and Local Government permanent secretary Lord Kerslake has been named president-elect of the Local Government Association.
The government’s flagship Better Care Fund should be extended quickly so that both local authorities and the NHS can plan further integration of spending, an expert has said.
Today’s confirmation of a City Devolution Bill should be the starting point for devolution go both further and wider across the country. The government should set out a roadmap to turn devolution...
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...
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.
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...
Local authorities often offer little or no help to homeless people according to undercover research into council provision across England by from charity Crisis.
