The government’s failure to distribute local police, public health and council funding according to differing levels of need risks worsening regional inequalities, working contrary to its supposed...
Police funding issues cannot be solved by relying on police and crime commissioners raising council tax, and experts have warned that the system creates a postcode lottery of services that threatens...
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has seen a real-term budget decrease of 20% over the past decade – equivalent to £200m – according to a report from the Northern Ireland Audit Office.
The number of neighbourhood police in England and Wales has fallen by 7,000 in the last three years, according to an investigation by The Sunday Times.
A trade union leader has attacked the decision to fund pay rises for a million public sector workers from existing departmental budgets for spelling further cuts to jobs and services.
Labour has almost drawn level with the Conservatives after closing a double-digit gap since the snap general election was called in April, a poll today suggests.
Police forces in England and Wales are increasingly reliant on locally raised funding as central government grants have been cut back, an Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis has revealed.
A leading police and crime commissioner has hit out at the Home Office efforts to change the police funding formula, saying the process is “flawed” and happening too fast.
