Ed Miliband has committed the next Labour government to cutting business rates in order to boost the small firms that he said were vital to the future of the economy.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has asked the Office for Budget Responsibility to examine Labour’s spending plans ahead of the next general election to assess their affordability
Cuts to the money county councils receive from the government’s New Homes Bonus will hit the delivery of vital infrastructure projects such as rural broadband and transport schemes, ministers have...
The number of people working in local government fell by nearly 50,000 in the second quarter of 2013, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics today.
Councils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have had to ‘scramble’ to avoid breaking the law through paying workers less than the National Minimum Wage when it is increased next month, trade...
A ‘culture of fear’ has taken hold in the Border Force since last year’s controversy over how to manage queues at passport control points, a National Audit Office report has said.
The rate of staff cuts being made across Whitehall will need to increase if the government is to meet its target for headcount reductions by 2015, the Institute for Government said today.
The leader of the UK’s largest local authority has today urged the National Audit Office to investigate the government’s handling of its funding of councils.
The government has made misleading claims about the impact of spending cuts on local authorities, burying their true scale in an opaque technical process, according to the Local Government...
Public and voluntary sector employers are more likely to use zero hours contracts than those in the private sector, according to research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
An independent report into behaviour at the Care Quality Commission has found ‘worrying levels of perceived bullying at all levels in the culture’ of the organisation and suggested that the problem...
Councils face constraints on their ability to reform and improve local public services despite town halls being given a general power of competence, the Local Government Association has said.
The government has been urged to slow down plans to expand outsourcing of public services after the Institute for Government warned that Whitehall lacks the skills to manage such deals.
Labour is set to announce proposals to revamp Local Enterprise Partnerships across England to improve their ability to help deliver economic growth, shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has...
The National Audit Office has said it is unable to verify £10bn of government savings claimed by the Cabinet Office in the 2012/13 financial year due to uncertainties in the data used by departments...
Six Labour-dominated councils are to develop schemes to fully integrate health and social care services as part of the party’s plans to devise a ‘new settlement’ for the NHS, shadow health secretary...
Work has started on a public project financed under Scotland's non-profit funding model after the deal to build the £47m Inverness College was struck in record time.
