The government has come under fire from campaign groups for failing to commit new funding to boost social housing, in its long-awaited green paper released today.
The Early Intervention Foundation has called for a Whitehall evaluation of David Cameron’s flagship Troubled Families programme to be published in full after after reports claimed the review found...
Greg Clark has confirmed that business rate cuts set out in last month’s Budget will not affect the four-year funding settlements for local authorities.
The government has called on local authorities to submit proposals for service responsibilities to be devolved to councils as part of business rates localisation from 2020.
The cost of collecting minimum council tax payments from low-income families is “disproportionate” to the amount being chased, local authorities have told a government-commissioned review into...
Bungalows and other homes for older people could make up as much as a quarter of council properties sold to fund a controversial government extension to the Right to Buy scheme, a report has...
Councils will have to compete with other authorities or companies to process planning applications in their area under Department for Communities and Local Government reforms intended to speed up...
MPs have called on the government to open its devolution process to greater public scrutiny so local communities can be part of decisions to localise control over services.
Information has begun to emerge on how LGPS assets might be pooled into British wealth funds to boost infrastructure investment ahead of the deadline for submissions.
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...
Councils in flood-hit areas in the North of England will be reimbursed for the costs incurred in the clean up through the Bellwin scheme, communities secretary Greg Clark announced yesterday.
The government has launched a review of the localisation of council tax support that will consider the impact of the reform on local government finance and whether further reforms should be made to...
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has warned that the government’s use of the new burdens doctrine, which is intended to ensure councils are not left out of pocket, “fails to reflect reality...
The Department for Communities and Local Government has agreed to cut 30% from its budget over the next four years after reaching a provisional Spending Review deal with the Treasury.
Communities secretary Greg Clark has insisted that the classification of housing associations as public bodies will not lead to the imposition of financial constraints on the sector. He said he had...
Day-to-day running of the London borough of Tower Hamlets is to be returned to the authority’s mayor after local government secretary Greg Clark said there had been progress in improving how...
Ministers have today approved a devolution deal for Cornwall to give the county greater control of adult skills spending and regional investment. It also introduces an integrated health and care...
A partnership between two local government pension schemes to pool £10bn of assets represents the sector “taking its destiny in its own hands”, one of the leaders of the project has...
Councils that fail to produce local housing and commercial development plans could be forced to do so by the local government secretary Greg Clark, according to proposals in the Treasury’s national...
Devolution of powers and budgets from central government is an essential driver for integrating public services at the local level, writes Lord Kerslake
A review by the National Audit Office has found that the new burdens doctrine provided £11.5bn for local authorities in the last Parliament. But DCLG should tackle the complexity and lack of...
Local Government Secretary Greg Clark has used the first meeting of the government’s dedicated housing taskforce to call on councils to ‘loosen their grip’ on land in a bid to free...
Greg Clark has been appointed local government secretary by Prime Minister David Cameron in his post-election reshuffle, replacing Eric Pickles at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
