Financial pressures are a constant for local authorities, but a new and unexpected difficulty has stolen the headlines. In October, scores of councils came down with a nasty case of frostbite after...
Town hall leaders are confident that they can meet targets to pay small and medium-sized suppliers more swiftly, to help them through the economic slowdown
The government was still trying to assess the impact of the collapse of Iceland's banks on public sector bodies and their partners this week after admitting 13 councils were in short-term...
The 'complex' structure of Scotland's public finance audit system is not widely understood and should be simplified, an influential commission has suggested.
Wyre Forest District Council in Worcestershire, Uttlesford District Council in Essex and Tamworth Borough Council in Staffordshire have been revealed as the three councils to receive emergency...
The implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards by councils requires dedication, hard work and application. It's an Olympian task but the prize will be worth it
Conservative proposals to establish an independent Office for Budget Responsibility could fail to fulfil the party's ambition of lowering public debt, senior economists have warned.
The CBI's director of public services brings a wealth of negotiating and HR experience to the role and will continue to push for more private provision, she tells Paul Dicken
Labour is giving its flagship Building Schools for the Future programme a makeover after criticisms of slow procurement, inner-city bias and poor building design
The fraught global economic situation could help Prime Minister Gordon Brown to sidestep questions over his leadership at Labour's party conference next week, according to well-placed observers.
London's £16bn Crossrail project seemed finally to have left its troubled past behind when Gordon Brown approved it last year. But as the economic crisis worsens, doubts are growing and the scheme...
The local income tax planned by the Scottish Government is not a local tax but a national levy, which would result in councils becoming the agents of central government, a leading public sector...
More and more civil servants now operate at arm's length from Whitehall as part of agencies. But there are suggestions that a Tory government might reverse this trend and attempt a 'radical...
Margaret Eaton, the frontrunner in the race to become the Local Government Association's new chair, will pick her battles with ministers, but has pledged to be 'aggressively forthright' if necessary.
