Funding cuts could have ‘devastating’ effects on local government and harm the most needed services, warned the incoming chair of the Commons local government select committee
Councils will be able to promote financial discipline across a range of organisations as part of the Total Place programme, influential local government figures have predicted
Unison members might be willing to accept some redundancies in return for less outsourcing and more say over public service reform, according to the union’s head of local government
There is widespread scepticism about the effects of Total Place and other initiatives to integrate public services, according to a CIPFA survey of 435 chief financial officers
The new government has already announced £6bn worth of cuts and more are on the way. In the run-up to this month's emergency Budget, Public Finance held a round table to assess the risks ahead. David...
CIPFA's new president brings experience of both health and local government to the role, as well as a strong public sector ethos. She explains her goals to PF editor Mike Thatcher
Spending cuts to the Department for Communities and Local Government are only the first step on a very long journey, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Ministers’ promises to prioritise cash for new social homes amid broader cuts in communities spending has been questioned by experts and dismissed by the Opposition as ‘false’.
Peter Housden, the outgoing permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government, has been appointed Scotland’s top civil servant.
Councils and the Audit Commission are holding ‘constructive talks’ to set up a peer review system to replace the Comprehensive Area Assessment inspection regime, Public Finance can reveal
The formula which allocates public funding per head to people in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should be extended to regions in the north of England, according to a think-tank
Peter Housden, the senior civil servant at the heart of the row over local government reorganisation, has been appointed to the top job at the Scottish Executive
Comprehensive Area Assessments for local government will be scrapped according to the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition’s programme for government, published today
Local government finance directors will play an increasingly important role in the harsh financial times ahead – but they will need different skills, argues Rob Whiteman
The new coalition government this week pushed forward with its ‘Big Society’ approach to reforming public services, but critics claim the ideas are a smokescreen for cuts
