More than 2,200 patients received corridor care each day in May at A&E, official data has shown, as professional bodies raise concern over growing pressure on the NHS.
Councils could be missing out on “millions of legitimate council tax revenue” on second homes and short-term lets as they struggle to identify “the full scale” of liable properties, a report has...
Ministers are determined to stick to the local government reorganisation timeline and let local authorities “get on” with their other priorities, local government minister Alison McGovern has...
The National Audit Office has said utility regulators should do more to support a rising tide of consumers facing energy debt, after it was found that millions of people are missing out on support...
The triple lock on the state pension should be abolished according to the Resolution Foundation after its analysis found it was too expensive, wasteful and had failed to reduce pensioner poverty.
Despite a government pledge to slash the administrative burden on businesses, many continue to find the UK’s regulatory landscape burdensome, complex, and difficult to navigate, a Public Accounts...
The absence of a credible spending plan for military equipment is pushing up costs and undermining the government’s credibility with its allies, a report from the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
Policymakers in England should avoid thinking about the ageing population as a discrete issue and instead make ageing part of a national conversation with policy implications across a host of other...
Around 3.5 million people live in local authorities with no active provider of civil legal aid, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Local authorities in England dealt with more than 1.26 million fly-tipping incidents during 2024-25, although the full scale of the problem is likely to be considerably higher due to incidents on...
The government must work with councils to implement the SEND reforms and provide more funding details, as the current system is “vulnerable”, the Local Government Association has warned.
County councils have claimed that local government reorganisation plans pose a “significant risk” to essential services, and are more costly, less stable and less effective than the current system.
Social housing tenancy fraud and misuse cost the Northern Ireland public purse an estimated £8m in 2024-25, but the full extent of the issue is still unknown, the comptroller and auditor general has...
The proportion of patients found to be no longer eligible for health and social care costs following reassessment has risen by almost 30% in the past eight years – even though the criteria for...
Ministers should boost devolution plans to give local authorities beyond the metro bubble more powers as top-down control from Whitehall “may stifle genuine regional autonomy”, a think-tank has...
Attempts by the government to stem huge losses due to fraud at the Ministry of Defence are falling woefully short, the Public Accounts Committee has warned, after it emerged that the department has...
Devolution and the shift to empower regions is paving the way for a greater focus on prevention as a way to transform public services, according to the Re:State think-tank.
Scottish ministers should make it clear which manifesto promises are a priority as they face “tricky decisions” and a funding squeeze, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.
Graduates are “over-burdened” by their student debt with the majority of student loan holders saying the repayment combined with the current tax levels are worse than they expected, a survey has...
Former health secretary Alan Milburn has warned of the risk of a lost generation of young people as the latest statistics underline a worsening crisis of 16-24-year-olds not in education, employment...
The re-elected leader of Hampshire County Council has said that it is to pursue a judicial review of the local government reorganisation outcome after confirming its new administration and cabinet...
Two-in-five universities would consider joining forces through ‘multi-academy trust’ style models or mergers, as university funding pressures continue to bite.
The Public Accounts Committee has said the government can and must do better after it emerged that close to £7bn of spending was written off by the 17 main government departments in 2024-25 for not...
