New planning rules freeing builders from the requirement to build social homes have taken effect. In return, ministers are expecting builders to slash their usual sale prices by 20% in bid to help...
Increasing demand and funding pressures in the NHS have led to foundation trust hospitals running a cumulative deficit five times higher than forecast in the financial year to date.
NHS England and health service regulator Monitor have proposed a new tariff for 2015/16 in a bid to get providers to approve changes to the payment regime.
Public services spend almost £17bn a year on addressing the impact of a host of social problems affecting young people, a study by the Early Intervention Foundation has found.
Over two-fifths of respondents to a survey on the effectiveness of local authority governance have warned that scrutiny committees are not doing enough to challenge the way that councils operate.
The coalition government’s controversial reforms to the NHS were ‘damaging’ as they distracted the service from tackling growing demand pressures and dealing with an unprecedented funding squeeze,...
County council areas received around one-third less than cities in the government’s latest £1bn funding round for local growth deals, an analysis has found.
Public support for the NHS increased last year, with two-thirds of people saying they were very or quite satisfied with the way the service is run, despite demand reaching record levels.
Further cuts to council funding in the next parliament could threaten the viability of statutory services such as adult social care and child protection in the most deprived areas, MPs have warned.
Academy funding must be made more transparent and new rules governing spending are needed to tackle possible conflicts of interest in the sector, the education select committee has said.
Chancellor George Osborne has proposed a new fiscal rule that would require the Treasury to run a surplus unless the Office for Budget Responsibility has judged the economy to be facing abnormal...
Schools could soon face a tipping point where there is no more space or money to offer extra places to pupils that need them, the Local Government Association has warned.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said the next Conservative government would get Britain ‘back to living within its means’ by running a surplus on day-to-day government spending by 2017/18.
More than a million unemployed people are receiving no government support to get back into work as they fall between cracks of different national schemes, an analysis for the Local Government...
Private healthcare operator Circle has said it will pull out of its flagship contract running Hinchingbrooke NHS hospital, citing funding cuts and increased demand on accident and emergency services.
Only 45 councils are providing council tax benefit at the same level as before the support was cut and localised to town halls in 2013, figures from the Local Government Association have revealed.
Councils in England will face an average cut in spending power of 1.8% in 2015/16, local government minister Kris Hopkins has announced, but London boroughs and urban authorities will face larger...
The Sheffield city region has agreed a devolution deal with Whitehall that will give the combined authority more power over economic development, transport, skills and housing, Deputy Prime Minister...
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has said that Birmingham City Council must improve its performance within one year or face Whitehall intervention after an independent review found it was not...
Almost 90% of NHS finance managers believe that the additional £2bn for the health service next year is insufficient, according to a snap survey carried out by the Healthcare Financial Management...
The UK public finances are on track to be in surplus by 2018/19, despite upward revisions to borrowing forecasts for this year and next, Chancellor George Osborne said in today’s Autumn Statement.
Central government is to be involved in the development and sale of homes on public land for the first time in a generation under plans announced by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander as...
The Autumn Statement should provide the NHS with an additional £2bn in funding in order to head off a financial crisis, the King’s Fund has said today.
The next Labour government would look to raise as much as £100m by selling off state-owned property in London, including restaurants and the QE2 Conference Centre, the party has announced.
Members of all three local government unions have voted to accept a two-year pay deal from the Local Government Association, resolving a dispute that had seen workers take strike action.