Chief executive appointments to Northern Ireland’s 11 new councils will be made through open competition, environment minister Alex Attwood has announced. The minister said this would be the fairest...
The Local Government Association today published stark details of the impact on future council services of spending cuts, warning that some might be scrapped altogether.
Public sector workers are losing pride in their work and trust in their leaders as the government’s austerity programme bites, according to research published by management consultancy Hay Group.
Six Labour-dominated councils are to develop schemes to fully integrate health and social care services as part of the party’s plans to devise a ‘new settlement’ for the NHS, shadow health secretary...
Local Enterprise Partnerships boundaries could be redrawn, Business Secretary Vince Cable has indicated, saying that the scope of the 39 areas is ‘not set in stone’.
Local government leaders have repeated calls for powers to tackle youth unemployment after a survey revealed that jobless young people had little faith in the government’s national approach.
Tens of councils face a financial shortfall of more than 15% in 2015/16 following Chancellor George Osborne’s Spending Review, the Local Government Association warned today.
English communities are being denied the public services they deserve due to the way Whitehall allocates and spends taxpayers’ money, Local Government Association chair Sir Merrick Cockell said today...
Councils in England collected almost £300m more in council tax in the past financial year, although over £2bn remains outstanding, government figures have revealed.
Pressure on public sector budgets has led to a rise in zero-hours contracts, particularly in the care sector. The biggest losers are vulnerable service-users and staff on poor pay and insecure hours...
The proposed national eligibility threshold for social care is to be based on the current ‘substantial’ need level used by councils, care minister Norman Lamb has announced.
CIPFA’s new president, Jaki Salisbury, has built a ‘can-do’ reputation, and won the loyalty of her colleagues for her hands-on tackling of local government problems. The ‘treasurer who likes to say...
The man who promised to 'intervene before breakfast, lunch and dinner' is back, and demanding a new local growth plan. Lord Heseltine talked to Judy Hirst ahead of the Spending Review
The National Audit Office has qualified the accounts of the Department for Communities and Local Government after finding the ministry breached two spending limits in 2012/13.
The government will fund or guarantee £300bn of capital spending by the end of the decade, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
Local authorities face a further two years of the council tax freeze and a 10% budget cut in the Spending Review for 2015/16, Chancellor George Osborne has said.
A new drive to help central and local government share offices and other buildings was launched yesterday, with 12 councils to be given extra Whitehall support to make better use of the public sector...
The Housing Revenue Account subsidy system is to be scrapped in Wales and councils put on a par with their English counterparts and made self-financing in terms of housing, the Treasury announced...
Sir Stephen Houghton, chair of Sigoma, has called for a new independent body to set council funding every three years, after warning that authorities could ‘wither away’ under the current finance...
Local government staff cuts are not even halfway done yet, with almost half a million workers set to be lost over the next four years, a survey has found.
The government’s Troubled Families Programme is to be expanded to provide targeted help to an extra 400,000 households at risk of suffering from a number of social problems, the Treasury has...
