Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council is set to terminate a private finance initiative contract early to help slim down its office portfolio and deliver savings.
The finance chief at Leeds City Council has predicted that more workers could come into the office once temperatures start to drop if their rising household energy bills mean they would save money by...
Nottinghamshire County Council prevented two attempted incidents of cyber fraud in 2021-22, saving the authority more than half a million pounds, it has emerged.
The bodies responsible for coordinating local care services in Scotland face significant financial challenges due to rising demand and a lack of certainty over funding, the national watchdog has...
The combined impact of Covid-19 and the cost-of-living crisis will see a city council make “tough choices” on services as budget cuts of close to 20% loom.
A group of MPs has criticised the government’s procurement at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, which they say has left officials needing to burn billions of pounds worth of surplus or faulty...
Government plans to cut the civil service by 91,000 jobs in three years are more drastic than those experienced at even the harshest point of austerity in the 2010s, trade unions have said, warning...
MPs have criticised the government for allowing “billions and billions” of pounds to be lost to fraud and error in Covid-19 support schemes, and particularly for lacking information on loans and...
An English council could sell off some of its offices for redevelopment after flexible working arrangements and years of staff cuts left them surplus to requirements.
Central government inaction on giving councils in England the ability to hold remote meetings is preventing authorities from reducing the financial and environmental cost of transport,...
The Treasury will spend £25m on a 'fraud squad' aimed at recovering funds wrongly given out in Covid-19 support schemes, with hopes the team will be up and running by the summer.
The government’s apparent lack of long-term plan to recover overdue debt issued via its £47bn Covid-19 business loan scheme means fraudsters could “walk away with billions of taxpayers’ money”,...
Councils received £700m more than they spent last year, down 90% on the 2021-22 surplus, while the overall public sector deficit fell by more than a half.
The government failed to collect data to determine whether more than £400m spent on Covid-19 travel measures delivered value for money, according to the National Audit Office.
Durham County Council is set to sell a new £50m office which it has not yet occupied, to help reduce costs as the authority moves to more flexible working.
The funding committed to social care bodies through Health and Social Care Levy, which went live today, is not enough to meet cost pressures and sector reforms, according to an expert.
NHS England could be forced to make up to half a billion pounds of cuts to planned investments in 2022-23, to help Covid-19 measures, according to its finance chief.
Measuring the effectiveness of billions of pounds of Covid-19 support paid to Scottish firms is impossible due to the poor quality of data collected by the Scottish government, according to...
Public health grant allocations to councils for 2022-23 raise questions about the government’s commitment to ensuring the nation is prepared for another health crisis, says Jim McManus.
