Funding for local bus services should be protected in Wednesday’s Spending Review, MPs said today. The Environmental Audit Committee said spending on buses was vital to ensuring that people were able...
Cuts to local government funding are ‘fundamentally restructuring UK society for the worse’ and ministers must protect the role of councils, Unison has warned.
The Treasury has launched an initiative to cut costs in projects built using the controversial Private Finance Initiative by urging private operators of hospitals and schools to agree to a code of...
Public sector employment in the UK continues to decline, falling by 22,000 to 5.7 million over the first three months of the year, official figures show.
More than 40% of council chief executives and leaders now fear Whitehall funding reductions will lead to frontline service cuts, a dramatic increase on the 2% who voiced these worries a year ago,...
Councils have warned that the government’s threat to remove local authorities from the process of recruiting and assessing potential child adopters could jeopardise recent improvements to the system.
A year on from the start of housing self-financing and most elements are working well. But the move to full depreciation accounting needs a bit more time
Thirteen existing enterprise zones have been shortlisted to share a £100m fund for investment in their local economies and infrastructure, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today.
Norfolk and the Isle of Wight are the first two local authorities to be visited by Ofsted inspectors under the watchdog’s new school improvement programme.
Local government could face cuts of up to 12% in the forthcoming Spending Review if the government decides to lessen the pain doled out to the Home Office and Ministry of Defence, the Institute for...
Communities in England are to be given a greater say over the siting of on-shore wind farms along with bigger incentives to ensure such developments are built, the government announced today.
English councils are to be given a £94m education refund for 2012/13 after Whitehall took too much from local authority grants to pay for services at academy schools.
London Mayor Boris Johnson has embraced the Travers commission proposals for increased financial autonomy for the capital. But will Whitehall, asks Vivienne Russell
The government is to launch a ‘rolling programme’ of Community Budgets at this month's Spending Review to give all areas a chance to join the pooled funding initiative.
Plans to establish a municipal bonds agency for local government could provide cheaper borrowing for councils than the Public Works Loan Board, an international expert has told Public Finance.
