Plans to reform funding of adult social care concentrate ‘too much on the inheritances of the children of elderly people’, rather than improving quality, veteran Conservative MP John Redwood said...
Councils could be forced to reopen planning agreements made with house builders if deals agreed before the economic downturn are holding up developments, Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has...
Local authority spending data is being released without town halls ensuring that it is ‘fit for purpose’, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee revealed today.
The £1.25bn of funding being channelled through the pupil premium is not necessarily going to be well spent, both the Sutton Trust education charity and Ofsted have warned.
The UK economy has contracted for the third successive quarter, with output falling by 0.7% in the three months to June this year, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Up to £126m is being made available to businesses and charities in England that succeed in getting thousands of jobless youngsters back into education or training.
Local government minister Bob Neill has defended Whitehall plans to support councils that are hit by falling business rates once the regime is localised.
Attempts to improve the performance of the UK Border Agency have been hampered by incoherent planning and the delayed delivery of a key IT project, it has been revealed today.
Transport Secretary Justine Greening today outlined plans for £4.2bn of new investment in Britain’s railways, including the extension of electrification across the network.
Reforms to the system of adult social care to be unveiled today by the government represent the ‘best opportunity in a generation’ to improve care for the elderly, the Local Government Association...
Working families with children have been dealt a ‘triple financial blow’ in the recession through cuts to tax credits and rising costs of childcare and transport, according to the Joseph Rowntree...
A continuing rise in the UK deficit could increase government borrowing costs if bond markets fear the coalition is ‘losing control’, journalist Paul Mason told CIPFA’s annual conference today.
The first three powers devolved under the 2012 Scotland Act come into force today, when Holyrood takes charge of drink/drive laws, road speed limits and air gun regulation.
Police forces in England and Wales have largely ‘risen to the challenge’ of maintaining services at a time of public spending cuts, the Inspectorate of Constabulary said today.
The government is set to offer greater devolution to English councils later this year in a move that will signal a ‘very radical’ extension of economic powers to local authorities
Ministers have launched a review of their choice policy for the public sector, with the aim of identifying barriers and increasing diversity of provision.
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 39,000 in the first three months of 2012, the tenth consecutive quarterly drop, the Office for National Statistics revealed today.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has said councils could save billions by merging services after three London boroughs today confirmed they will save £40m a year by co-operation.
