The government's flagship Big Society policy could founder if it is not adequately financed, according to a survey of charity and social enterprise bosses
All eyes are on how much the chancellor will cut in his Spending Review. But maximising income from tax revenues is just as important, argues Richard Murphy
The chancellor's statement on October 20 has been billed as a Spending Review like no other, with 25% cuts expected across most departments. But the full impact will only be understood
years down...
The National Policing Improvement Agency has been lauded for saving money and buying more efficiently. But the Home Office plans to bring it to a halt. David Williams reports
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has released a practical guide to help ensure public bodies are transparent and fair when making decisions over spending.
A website tool inviting residents to tell local authorities where cuts should be made will allow the 'most thorough and comprehensive consultation ever taken on local public spending', according to...
Decisions over benefit payments should be localised and welfare spending incorporated into pooled area-based budgets, the government has been told today
Not all cuts have to be bad, sometimes you can get more for less – and that’s particularly the case with procurement, argues Paul O'Brien. Some councils have already found new ways
to make the most...
David Cameron's Big Society could radically change the way services are delivered, and help councils empower communities. But the bad news for the chancellor is that it's unlikely to save much money...
A decisive shift towards Total Place-style budgeting is widely expected to be included in next month’s Comprehensive Spending Review, Public Finance has learned.
Plans to replace police authorities with directly elected police and crime commissioners came under renewed fire today after it was claimed that the move would cost £101m
Council leaders warned the government today that a combination of grant cuts and increasing demand for services could leave them with a funding gap of up to £20bn a year by 2014/15
Ministers have hugely ambitious infrastructure plans. The only problem is they don't intend to pay for them. With capital spending being cut at an unprecedented rate, can the private sector step up...
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt today told MPs that his ministry will have to be ‘more imaginative than any other department in Whitehall’ in seeking to slash its costs by half.
The government will review local government finance 'this time next year', Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles told an influential group of MPs this week.
Scotland's rival political parties have united in talks aimed at persuading the Ministry of Defence not to go ahead with proposals to cut the UK's £37bn defence budget
