The government’s education policies are damaging the life chances of a generation of children and must be reversed, the new president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has said today.
The ten most deprived local authorities in England face a funding cut as much as 16 times greater than better-off areas of the country over the six years to the end of 2015/16, the Labour Party has...
Devolved administrations in the nations and regions of the UK are increasingly getting the blame when public services go wrong, but Whitehall still carries the can where division of power is murky, a...
The Department of Health has slashed the number of Better Care Fund areas that are fast-tracking their plans from 14 to six, Public Finance can reveal.
Iain Duncan Smith will today defend the government’s welfare reforms by insisting that measures including the introduction of a £26,000 benefit cap are ensuring a ‘social recovery’ in the UK...
Gross domestic product grew by 0.6% in the three months to the end of June, latest figures from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research have estimated.
Councils across the country are writing off millions of pounds of parking fines each year because they are unable to trace the drivers of foreign vehicles, the Local Government Association has said.
MPs have warned that government employees are less likely to come forward to disclose wrongdoing following the failure of Whitehall departments to protect whistleblowers in the past.
Public servants must look beyond national borders and election cycles to meet the challenges of globalisation, the CIPFA conference heard from EY’s Uschi Schreiber.
CIPFA Scotland’s long-awaited referendum ‘balance sheet’ will be published shortly, accompanied by a plea for more transparent reporting of Scottish public finances, regardless of the outcome of the...
The Audit Commission has urged councils to ensure they implement a strategic approach to asset and property management after finding £2.5bn of the local government estate could be put to better use.
Scottish ministers are to relax Treasury rules on the sale of state-owned assets in order to free up land owned by the Scottish Government and its agencies for community purchase.
Government plans to integrate public services and spending mean it is vital that reforms are also made to the regime for dealing with complaints about poor provision, the Whitehall ombudsman has said.
The new chair of the Local Government Association has pledged to be robust in representing the position of councils to government during ‘critical times for local government’.
The government has agreed to write-off the historical housing stock debt of Salford City Council as part of moves to transfer ownership of the properties to Salix social housing company.
An independent Scotland could face as much as £2.7bn in costs to establish the fundamental basics of a new national government, the Westminster administration has claimed, but the figure has been...
Council tax arrears is now the biggest single debt problem reported to the Citizens Advice Bureau following government reforms that localised the support scheme for the tax, it has been revealed.
Labour has become the largest single group within the Local Government Association following last week’s local election results, an analysis by the umbrella body for local government in England and...
The Local Government Association has formed a commission to examine how the rural areas of England can boost their contribution to economic growth and improve public services.
NHS trusts in England have been issued with guidance on how to publish monthly data on ward-level nursing and care staff numbers as part of plans to increase transparency.
Education Secretary Michael Gove has insisted the government’s free schools programme is being funded in addition to money provided to meet the basic need for additional places for a growing...
Whitehall working arrangements need to be urgently clarified as the coalition government enters its final year, an Institute for Government report has said.
A new government tool to improve the cost-benefit analysis of public service reforms could help councils make the case for local changes that improve provision and cut costs, according to a senior...
