Sheffield City Council expects social care pressures to make up more than 70% of a £43m funding gap this year, with further government support needed to ensure medium-term viability.
Tight funding settlements will leave Welsh authorities with difficult decisions on which services to prioritise, as the nation recovers from Covid-19, according to its spending watchdog.
Healthcare services in England will likely require multi-billion-pound top-ups over the medium term if they are to avoid spending reductions, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The £1.5bn Green Homes Grant was approved by a senior civil servant, despite an internal committee rejecting its business case, according to the National Audit Office.
Health services in England will receive billions more in funding for the remainder of 2021-22 to help meet Covid-19 costs, but service leaders have warned of “one of the most challenging winters”...
NHS England will need a further £10bn next year, to help cover Covid-19 costs without the need for service cuts, according to two leading health bodies.
Mansfield District Council is set to sell a hotel it owns in Edinburgh, after the Covid-19 lockdown led to the operator saying the site was ‘unsustainable’.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is coming under intense pressure from NHS providers to commit more funding to help the service recover from Covid-19, according to reports.
Almost three quarters of UK parliamentary constituencies will be adversely affected by the proposed removal of additional Universal Credit support, according to an anti-poverty charity.
The Scottish government has announced it will provide more than £1bn additional funding over five years to help address health shortages and treatment backlogs created by Covid-19.
Councils in England will be required to provide more information on reserve levels to the government, in a bid to improve Whitehall's understanding of financial risks.
West Lothian Council has agreed to guarantee the financial position of a wholly-owned local leisure operator until the end of April, after Covid-19 impacted on its finances.
Luton Borough Council has defended its annual capital borrowing limit, which will rise to £1bn over the next four years due to the “devastating impact” of Covid-19.
Covid-19 support measures and the related economic slowdown saw the Scottish government's budget deficit spike to 22.4% of GDP last year, according to latest statistics.
Shetland Island Council must reduce its reliance on reserves to help manage budgetary pressures in future years, according to the authority's finance chief.
The government will compensate English and Welsh councils as it proposes moving responsibility for collecting more than £300m of business rates tax to the Treasury.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged there will be “absolutely no return to austerity” in the upcoming Spending Review, as the UK recovers from Covid-19.
