Westminster City Council is on the brink of launching legal action against the government's registrar general after allegations that the 2001 census was wildly inaccurate.
New Labour's suggested shake-up of the UK pension system, dubbed the 'work until you drop' package, is merely storing up problems for the future, according to public sector experts, opposition...
Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes councils have awarded Hyder Business Services 'preferred bidder status' in what could be the largest public-private partnership in local government history.
Labour has not done enough to stop local government's powers being sapped by Whitehall and must accept its share of the blame, the party's general secretary has admitted.
The controversy surrounding Comprehensive Performance Assessments looked likely to stretch into the new year as this week at least three councils launched legal bids to have their judgements...
The prospect of a speedy settlement of the firefighters dispute looked increasingly unlikely this week after both the government and employers confirmed that negotiations would now be limited to the...
All eight arm's-length management organisations for housing that began operating in April have secured their immediate funding after receiving two or more stars from inspectors.
Average council tax bills in London are likely to top £1,000 if Mayor Ken Livingstone's estimated cost of policing the capital in the wake of heightened terrorism fears is accepted by the London...
Taxpayers may end up paying millions of pounds to deal with problems caused by abandoned waste sites because of poor costing by operators, says the National Audit Office.
London-based Beaver Housing Society has become the first registered social landlord to be strongly criticised by inspectors from the Housing Corporation.
Birmingham's housing department should be broken up into 35 community-based organisations, according to the commission set up after tenants rejected stock transfer.
Top-tier local authorities in England were finally put out of their misery when the Audit Commission published the results of the Comprehensive Performance Assessments on December 12.
Opposition parties have accused Scotland's Labour-dominated coalition of taking the electorate for granted by drawing up plans for the whole of the next Parliament.
Fraudulent housing benefit claims could be costing taxpayers billions of pounds each year but some councils have done nothing to remedy the problem, the minister in charge of the government's anti-...
Sir Jeremy Beecham has voiced doubts about the quality of some of the inspections carried out for the Comprehensive Performance Assessment, just one week before the results are unveiled.
Local authorities will have to stick to the April 2003 deadline for implementing FRS17 the controversial accounting standard under proposals published by CIPFA in a consultation paper last week...
Local government leaders are finally seeing local tax-raising powers within their grasp after Gordon Brown indicated that authorities would be able to keep rates income generated by encouraging new...
The government's affordable housing strategy ran into trouble this week when the Ministry of Defence admitted it could not stop 25 homes at an Essex army barracks being sold off.
