Finance professionals in public sector bodies must drive efficiency programmes in their organisations to ensure services are protected from ‘really challenging’ funding cuts, the head of a government...
Serious failings in the use of confidentiality clauses in public sector severence deals means they have been used to cover up failure and pay off whistleblowers, the Public Accounts Committee said...
The government today asked the European Union to approve plans to extend a fuel duty rebate to rural areas to seven additional locations in England and Scotland
CIPFA and the Local Government Association have today announced their intention to create of an independent commission to examine the future of local government finance.
Four out of five local authorities reduced entitlement to help with council tax bills after responsibility for Council Tax Benefit was devolved to the local level last April, the Institute for Fiscal...
The true cost of delivering local authority services in Scotland is being under-estimated by nearly £1bn per annum, a deficit equivalent to £175 for every individual in the land, CIPFA Scotland has...
A majority of people responding to Birmingham City Council's consultation on its future spending plans support an increase in council tax of 2% or above from April, council leader Sir Albert Bore has...
The number of councils in Wales should be cut by around half to save money and ensure they are able to provide quality services amid funding pressures, a report commissioned by the Welsh Government...
The government’s expanded neighbourhood community budgets programme has been opened for applications from groups wanting to develop reforms to local public services.
Plymouth’s city region is to receive a £34m funding package from government to boost the region’s marine and advanced manufacturing industry as part of its City Deal with ministers.
Local government minister Brandon Lewis has announced that councils in England will be given an extra £6.7m in Whitehall funding to cover the cost of repairs following this winter’s floods.
The impact of local government funding cuts are set to be compounded due to ‘unfair’ changes to how councils are financed, authorities in the northeast of England have warned ministers.
Birmingham City Council has confirmed it is considering the sale of the National Exhibition Centre as part of an asset disposal programme intended to meet the cost of equal pay claims
The Local Government Ombudsman still needs to raise its game ‘significantly’ if it is to become an efficient arbitrator of complaints about council services, the communities and local government...
Some councils are struggling to undertake the required inspections of food businesses, which could lead to an increased risk to public health, a survey of town halls has found.
More than one-third of the council homes sold in London under the right-to-buy programme are now being let out by private landlords, figures compiled by Labour have indicated
Local authorities will retain all of the business rates raised from local shale gas developments, Prime Minister David Cameron announced today as part of the government’s drive to go ‘all out’ to...
The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has launched the second stage of its commission to develop a plan to localise public services and council funding in Scotland.
Counties in England have been ‘excluded’ from the government’s growth strategy and need to be given greater financial powers to ensure the economic recovery is spread across the country, councils...
The chair of the local government select committee has made a formal complaint to the UK’s statistics watchdog over Prime Minister David Cameron’s claim that future local government spending would...
