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28 Aug 20
CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman introduces a report into the criminal justice system during Covid-19.
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28 Apr 20
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.
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23 Jan 20
The Home Office has unveiled a £1.1bn funding package for policing in 2020-21 but has been criticised for “unsustainable, short-term thinking”.
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28 Aug 18
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.
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24 Jul 18
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.
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6 Jun 17
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.
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5 Jun 17
Criticism of cuts to the police force has resurfaced in the wake of the third terrorist atrocity in Britain in just over two months.
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11 Jul 16
Radically reducing the number of police forces operating in England and Wales could make funding much fairer
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17 Nov 15
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.
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16 Nov 15
Joint governance of police forces and fire services in England will present technical accounting problems, the Home Office has been told.
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9 Nov 15
The recent row over changes to the police funding formula has ignored the fact that the statistical methods underpinning it are illogical and flawed.
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4 Nov 15
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.