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4 Oct 13
The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has launched a council-led commission looking at how to localise public services and reform town hall funding in Scotland.
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4 Oct 13
The government’s plan to privatise the Royal Mail amounts to ‘flogging off a national institution on the cheap’ and could leave taxpayers shortchanged by future asset sales, Labour’s shadow business...
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3 Oct 13
The government should reform tax reliefs to encourage people to save for the future costs of adult social care through their pension scheme, according to a report published by a law firm today
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3 Oct 13
Funding for GP services has fallen by £400m in real terms over four years, the Royal College of GPs revealed today. It warned has left a ‘black hole’ in the finances of many practices
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3 Oct 13
Funding for GP services has fallen by £400m in real terms over four years, the Royal College of GPs revealed today. It warned this had left a ‘black hole’ in the finances of many practices
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2 Oct 13
The chair of the Local Government Association has warned that Chancellor George Osborne’s plan to achieve a surplus in the public finances by the end of the next Parliament could be ‘very bad’ for...
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5 Sep 13
The HS2 Growth Taskforce today holds the first of its regional roadshows in the West Midlands. The group has been formed by the Department for Transport with the aim of devising ways to increase the...
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23 Aug 13
The Treasury is to increase the size of the Coastal Communities Fund by 5% to £29m next year, it announced today.
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16 Aug 13
Universities in Scotland are poised to benefit financially in the coming year from a record influx of students from the rest of the UK, paying fees of up to £9,000 a year and from non-European...
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15 Aug 13
More than half of the Welsh public want the National Assembly for Wales to gain more powers, but they are divided on which areas should transfer, a survey has found.
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14 Aug 13
Business rate relief for smaller firms has trebled in value since the last general election, Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has said.
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9 Aug 13
Plans to introduce a payment-by-results system into probation services risk ‘backfiring’ as the model could penalise successful providers, the Social Market Foundation warned today.
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7 Aug 13
Two government policies on the future of high streets could be in conflict, the Local Government Association has warned
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7 Aug 13
The Scottish Government’s budget to 2017/18 will fall in both cash and real terms following this year’s UK Spending Review, the Centre for Public Policy for Regions has said
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22 Jul 13
It is too easy for elected police and crime commissioners to remove chief constables from office, MPs warned today as they called for better scrutiny of the process
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19 Jul 13
Andrea Sutcliffe has been appointed as the Care Quality Commission’s first chief inspector of adult social care
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15 Jul 13
A cap on the amount of benefit an individual or a household can receive begins to be rolled out across England, Scotland and Wales today
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11 Jul 13
Lord Heseltine has described the government’s proposed funding for the local growth pot as a ‘significant start’, despite it being well below the figure recommended in his No stone unturned report
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11 Jul 13
Whitehall should give up control of council tax and allow authorities to set their own rates, a CIPFA discussion paper has suggested
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11 Jul 13
The High Speed 2 rail project should be scrapped and the money re-invested in a massive housebuilding drive, an influential Conservative commentator told the CIPFA conference
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10 Jul 13
Roger Davis has been presented with the Tom Sowerby award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to CIPFA student education
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10 Jul 13
The London Finance Commission's proposals to devolve more financial powers to the capital could create a ‘virtuous circle’ of economic growth, according to its chair Tony Travers
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10 Jul 13
The youngest adults are the least likely to be sympathetic to poor people or proud of the welfare state, Ipsos Mori chief executive Ben Page has revealed today
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10 Jul 13
Solving the ‘jobs puzzle’ in the economy is fundamental to understanding how the country can recover, BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders has told CIPFA’s annual conference
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11 Nov 11
Audit Commission staff are to be balloted on industrial action for the first time ever in a dispute over pension protection.
4 Oct 13The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has launched a council-led commission looking at how to localise public services and reform town hall funding in Scotland.
4 Oct 13The government’s plan to privatise the Royal Mail amounts to ‘flogging off a national institution on the cheap’ and could leave taxpayers shortchanged by future asset sales, Labour’s shadow business...
3 Oct 13Funding for GP services has fallen by £400m in real terms over four years, the Royal College of GPs revealed today. It warned this had left a ‘black hole’ in the finances of many practices
5 Sep 13The HS2 Growth Taskforce today holds the first of its regional roadshows in the West Midlands. The group has been formed by the Department for Transport with the aim of devising ways to increase the...
23 Aug 13The Treasury is to increase the size of the Coastal Communities Fund by 5% to £29m next year, it announced today.
9 Aug 13Plans to introduce a payment-by-results system into probation services risk ‘backfiring’ as the model could penalise successful providers, the Social Market Foundation warned today.
15 Jul 13A cap on the amount of benefit an individual or a household can receive begins to be rolled out across England, Scotland and Wales today
11 Jul 13Lord Heseltine has described the government’s proposed funding for the local growth pot as a ‘significant start’, despite it being well below the figure recommended in his No stone unturned report
11 Jul 13The High Speed 2 rail project should be scrapped and the money re-invested in a massive housebuilding drive, an influential Conservative commentator told the CIPFA conference
10 Jul 13Solving the ‘jobs puzzle’ in the economy is fundamental to understanding how the country can recover, BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders has told CIPFA’s annual conference
11 Nov 11Audit Commission staff are to be balloted on industrial action for the first time ever in a dispute over pension protection.
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