Sustained long-term investment in community and social care is the key to managing NHS pressures, despite new government funding to speed up hospital discharging, experts have warned.
Public sector workers need pay rises similar to their private sector counterparts if services are to maintain motivated, experienced staff, the Treasury has said – but without promising new money for...
Making maths lessons compulsory until the age of 18 could exacerbate already-troublesome teaching shortages, and it is important the plan is based on solid evidence rather than being Rishi Sunak’s “...
The shift to hybrid working has left North Somerset Council’s primary office mostly empty, and the authority is considering demolishing the building to make way for a new housing development.
The failure to replace outdated IT systems is hindering the government’s ability to reduce the costs of managing its extensive estate, MPs have warned.
Local authority reserves collectively rose again last year, as many councils diverted funding to build up their buffers in the absence of a long-term funding settlement, CIPFA has said.
Thurrock Council’s decision to issue a section 114 notice is a necessary step to ensuring exceptional government support, commissioners appointed to turn around the authority have said.
Scottish ministers have overstated the level of funding in the 2023-24 draft budget, after falling to account for top-ups in this year’s budget, economists have claimed.
Ministers are set to raise the revenue support grant for local authorities in line with inflation next year, as part of the upcoming local government settlement.
The lack of sufficient data on how much local authorities received from government grants makes it impossible to scrutinise the success of funding, Clive Betts, chair of the Levelling Up, Housing and...
The financially restrictive devolution settlement is holding back Wales’s ability to plan for the long term, an independent commission looking at the country’s future has argued.
Two counties have been offered separate devolution deals worth more than £1bn over the next 30 years, alongside new powers over education and regional development.
Slough Borough Council will need to sell £100m of property in the next nine months if it is to repay much of its short-term debt without its interest rates effectively quadrupling.
The successful delivery of savings and tight spending controls have helped Peterborough City Council make significant progress towards long term financial stability, an independent panel has said.
External auditors for Spelthorne Borough Council have issued a rare public interest report amid concerns the authority’s historical commercial investment breached local government regulations.
Thurrock Council’s concentrated investment strategy was a failing that resulted in a £470m budget black hole, according to the official turnaround team.
Failed investments have put Thurrock Council in a grave financial position and facing a deficit of nearly half a billion pounds this year, the commissioners sent in to sort out the authority’s...
The Scottish Government should be given the resources and powers to dictate how levelling up and post-Brexit development funding is allocated, a senior minister has said.
The government’s approach of funding social care simply in order to relieve the NHS shows it has the wrong perspective on the importance of care services, peers have said.
Measures in the Autumn Statement favour councils in well-off areas that already raise lots of money from council tax, while those in deprived areas that already bore the brunt of austerity miss out,...
