Councils will not achieve the substantial savings needed over the next three years through either outsourcing or employee-owned mutuals, a Public Finance round table debate agreed this week.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has announced that councils are to be given enhanced powers to evict travellers from unauthorised sites following the long-running legal battle at Dale Farm in...
Planned increases in council workers' pension contributions could be avoided, the umbrella body of councils in England and Wales has told minsters today.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has admitted that the government was 'a tad optimistic' to believe the Community Budgets initiative could be co-ordinated across Whitehall without a minister...
Trades Union Congress general secretary Brendan Barber has admitted that he cannot predict whether it will be possible for the unions to strike a deal with the government on changes to public sector...
Ministers are looking for private or voluntary sector bodies to take over the Fire Service College as public spending cuts have caused a slump in its revenue
Giving local authorities control of Council Tax Benefit certainly fits in with ministers’ localism plans. But by combining it with a 10% grant cut, the coalition is also passing the buck for cutting...
Councils have called for the government to speed up the introduction of new powers that will allow local authorities to charge fees to utility companies who dig up roads.
Upper-tier councils in England will take over responsibility for providing access to sexual health services, the national child measurement programme and the NHS's health check assessments, ministers...
Public service ombudsmen are to be given expanded roles as part of the government's public service reforms for England, Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday.
