The communities secretary has accused opposition MPs of “unnecessary scaremongering” over suggestions that the fair funding formula will see cash diverted from metropolitan councils to shire counties...
Austerity is not yet over for local government, representatives said as they criticised the government for failing to provide sustainability in the provisional finance settlement.
Councils’ spending power could rise to £46.4bn next year, a real-terms increase, local government secretary James Brokenshire revealed as he published the provisional settlement today.
Planned changes to the New Homes Bonus will have an adverse effect on communities, shrinking funding and reducing the incentive for new housebuilding, the District Councils Network has warned.
The year of 2016 saw many seismic changes, but ministers' approach to local government finance has remained the same. This has increased the risk that town hall’s two main revenue streams – council...
Sajid Javid has announced a £240m transfer from the New Homes Bonus to adult social care funding and confirmed that councils would also be able to raise the council tax precept for care by 3% in the...
Local government finance chiefs have raised concerns about pressures faced by both adult and children’s social care services ahead of the council funding settlement expected this week.
Ministers are considering allowing local authorities to levy a higher council tax precept to fund social care services ahead of the local government settlement.
A government consultation into council finance has proposed the inclusion of more areas of funding within the four-year settlement offered to local authorities.
The government has been urged to prepare an emergency action plan to protect services if local authorities run out of money amid wholesale changes to council funding.
The “unprecedented” reductions in funding for county councils set out in the local government finance settlement could "all but end" the provision of non-statutory services in...
Local government funding cuts are to ease in the years to 2019/20 compared to the last parliament and will be more evenly distributed across authorities, an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal...
Councils face a 6% cut in spending power next year once ring-fenced funds and pooled resources are excluded from the Local Government Finance Settlement, an analysis by CIPFA has found.