There should be a switch in how the government accounts for benefit spending as part of moves to introduce a “welfare earnback” for councils that can help people into work, a report has recommended.
Sadiq Khan is to reconvene the London Finance Commission in order to develop beefed-up fiscal devolution plans for the capital following the Brexit vote.
Tributes have been paid to Harold Bodmer, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, whose sudden death was announced this week.
Elderly people are regularly kept in hospital for too long after their treatment has finished, with a cost to the health service of around £800m a year, the Public Accounts Committee has found.
Government departments and local authorities are among the worst offenders when it comes to the unfair treatment of people in problem debt, according to debt charity StepChange.
Essex County Council chief executive Gavin Jones is to take over as interim chair of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (Solace) until the organisation’s AGM in October.
Public Sector Audit Appointments expects to gain government approval to become a body through which local authorities can opt to have their auditors chosen, a workshop at the CIPFA conference has...
Securing a credit rating has helped Warrington Borough Council raise money for a regeneration project, its finance director Lynton Green told a CIPFA conference workshop.
City leaders must make the case for devolution to the new government if the programme is to continue under Theresa May’s administration, a leading localism expert has told CIPFA’s annual...
The self-financing settlement offered to councils by government in order to increase council house construction has failed to live up to its promise, CIPFA and the Chartered Institute of Housing have...
Four in 10 council bosses want to increase commercial revenue but just 4% say they have significant commercial expertise, a poll by CIPFA and Civica has found.
The interim mayor of Greater Manchester Tony Lloyd has called for the powers and investment in towns, cities and regions across the whole of England to be boosted as part of a devolution drive.
Housing has been hit by the economic uncertainty following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. The government must develop a plan to keep the sector building
All parts of the public sector must assess their financial resilience following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union in order to be prepared for the consequences of Brexit, the new CIPFA...
The introduction of a council tax precept to boost social care funding will fail to cover the extra costs faced by the sector from the National Living Wage according to the Association of Directors...
Greg Clark has set out a “continuous devolution” plan to boost the role of local councils so they become equal partners with Westminster in the governance of the country.
Potential fiscal, economic and social benefits should be assessed when reforming services, and an analysis tool developed in Greater Manchester can help with this
