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4 Oct 10
Total-Place style budgeting received a firm endorsement from local government minister Bob Neill at the Conservative Party conference yesterday
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4 Oct 10
Councils are to be charged with implementing the benefits cap announced by Chancellor George Osborne today
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30 Sep 10
Elderly people over the age of 75 will bear the brunt of the government's spending cuts, a leading charity warned today
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29 Sep 10
Third sector leaders are less confident about their financial prospects than at any time since the before the recession, a survey has shown.
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27 Sep 10
Former chancellor Alistair Darling launched a scathing attack on the coalition’s economic policy at the Labour Party conference today.
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27 Sep 10
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...
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27 Sep 10
Decisions over benefit payments should be localised and welfare spending incorporated into pooled area-based budgets, the government has been told today
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24 Sep 10
The coalition government is proposing to abolish 180 quangos, leaked papers have revealed
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23 Sep 10
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...
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23 Sep 10
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...
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22 Sep 10
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.
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21 Sep 10
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
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20 Sep 10
Councils in England are to be given new borrowing powers to finance growth in towns and cities, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced today
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17 Sep 10
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
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16 Sep 10
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...
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14 Sep 10
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.
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14 Sep 10
The government will review local government finance 'this time next year', Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles told an influential group of MPs this week.
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14 Sep 10
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
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14 Sep 10
The government has been managing expectations of next month’s Comprehensive Spending Review since June’s emergency Budget, and voters now know to expect incredibly harsh settlements for the services...
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13 Sep 10
The Unite union has told Prime Minister David Cameron that councils have already axed vital services such as meals on wheels and social care provision for elderly people as they prepare for spending...
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13 Sep 10
A major government programme to move people off Incapacity Benefit and into work has come under scathing criticism from Parliament’s spending watchdog
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13 Sep 10
Opponents of the government's spending cuts must marshal an intellectual case for an alternative, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress said today
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10 Sep 10
The Welsh Local Government Association has warned that the public sector cuts to be announced next month put Wales at greater risk of returning to recession.
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10 Sep 10
Three ideas for cutting the deficit put forward by members of the public are to be taken forward, the government said today
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10 Sep 10
Social housing provider Lovell has paid £28m to acquire the majority of Connaught Partnerships' social housing contracts and assets, it was announced today
4 Oct 10Total-Place style budgeting received a firm endorsement from local government minister Bob Neill at the Conservative Party conference yesterday
23 Sep 10Not 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...
23 Sep 10David 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...
16 Sep 10Ministers 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...
