A reconfigured relationship between central and local government is needed to prevent Britain “sleepwalking into a second lost decade”, a think-tank has said.
Human trafficking rates are exploding, yet many public sector bodies know little about the Modern Slavery Act and the responsibilities it places on them. Dominic Brady reports.
Last week’s local elections were more eventful than expected but were still dominated by national politics rather than community issues, says LGiU’s Jonathan Carr-West.
Social care could be funded by a state pension-style model, taking financial burden away from local authorities, according to the former work and pensions secretary Damian Green.
England is facing “democracy deserts” in next week’s local elections with 148 seats going totally uncontested, according to the Electoral Reform Society.
Local authority pothole cash, the army and apprenticeship figures and areas that have seen the biggest wage rises - all in the Numbers Game from the April 2019 edition of Public...
The largest growing area of fraud being detected or prevented by councils is business rates fraud, yet this represents only a fraction of the total, says CIPFA’s Marc McAuley.
Debate about levels of council tax is doomed to go nowhere unless we consider what we’re willing to pay for services and how, says the Local Government Information Unit’s Jonathan Carr-West.
Today marks one year since the Homelessness Reducation Act came into force. John Glenton from The Riverside Group housing association suggests how councils can meet their duties under this act....
Local government services most likely to suffer from reductions in central government funding are mainly used by women, the director of the Women’s Budget Group Mary-Ann Stephenson says.