Community Budgets represent a 'step back' from the Total Place initiative begun under the previous government, Lord Bichard told CIPFA delegates in Birmingham yesterday.
Fragmentation of service provision will make it harder than ever to check on value for money, Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge told the CIPFA conference this morning.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has flatly denied to Public Finance that he warned the prime minister that a £500 cap on Housing Benefit would increase homelessness.
A pioneer of the free school movement has accused the government of breaking faith with the Big Society idea by putting bureaucratic obstacles in its path
Fiscal loosening ‘initially protected most people from the impact of the recession’ but ‘now we face five years of paying for it’, Institute for Fiscal Studies director Paul Johnson told the CIPFA...
CIPFA members have a major role to play in the success of the government's deficit-reduction strategy, the new institute president told conference delegates this morning.
