Councils will not achieve the substantial savings needed over the next three years through either outsourcing or employee-owned mutuals, a Public Finance round table debate agreed this week.
Local government staff and civil servants will be barred from working full time for trade unions while taking a salary for their job, the government has announced.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has announced that councils are to be given enhanced powers to evict travellers from unauthorised sites following the long-running legal battle at Dale Farm in...
Chancellor George Osborne has announced that the government will give councils £805m to freeze council tax for a second consecutive year, using money saved by cutting waste.
Senior staff salaries, spending over £500 and audits should all be regularly published by councils, according to the final code of practice on data transparency.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will give his personal backing to plans to extend Community Budgets, confronting those Whitehall departments that are ‘digging in’ against the changes, a senior...
Shadow communities and local government minister Caroline Flint has pledging that a future Labour government would stop Housing Benefit going to landlords who house tenants in sub-standard properties.
Councils are pressing ahead with plans to borrow through the bond market for the first time in more than two decades, despite the cut in public borrowing interest rates, Public Finance has been told.
Planned increases in council workers' pension contributions could be avoided, the umbrella body of councils in England and Wales has told minsters today.
Local authorities could be given the power to charge an additional tax on owners of homes that have been empty for more than two years, a Liberal Democrat minister has announced.
The doomed attempt to streamline fire control services in England is 'one of the worst cases of project failure' the Public Accounts Committee has seen, its chair said today.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has admitted that the government was 'a tad optimistic' to believe the Community Budgets initiative could be co-ordinated across Whitehall without a minister...
