Scottish councils should be able to collect a discretionary local tourist tax if Scotland is to become more fiscally autonomous, an umbrella group has said.
The government must refocus its housebuilding spend on affordable homes and suspend the right to buy scheme, according to the Chartered Institute for Housing.
Middle aged, older people and employers should pay into a dedicated social insurance fund that would cover free social care on a universal basis, MPs from across the political spectrum said today.
Three-quarters of public service leaders feel the government has not engaged sufficiently with their organisation over Brexit, a CIPFA survey has revealed.
Less than half of risk professionals in public sector organisations have said there is not enough risk awareness when managing commercial projects, research has suggested.
Local authorities across Britain have shelled out at least £6.8m in three years on plane tickets, according to research released today by a campaign group.
Councils must be “adequately resourced” to help their EU residents with advice and support as they apply to stay in the UK after Brexit, council leaders in the capital have said today.
Northamptonshire council and Public Health England have agreed that £8m will to be reinvested in public health services following a row over misspent grant, the local authority has confirmed....
Kensington and Chelsea council’s efforts to re-house residents after the Grenfell Tower fire were ‘incompetent’ and ‘indifferent’, a survivor has suggested to MPs.
The government has launched its promised consultation on banning combustible cladding on the exteriors of high-rise residential buildings, the housing secretary has announced.
A New York-style property levy could give local authorities a multi-billion pound windfall to put toward housebuilding, the Association for Consultancy and Engineering has said.
Local authorities need government funding to help them make a success of the act recently brought in to prevent and reduce homelessness, says the LGiU’s Andrew Walker.
The extra £20bn a year for the NHS is like “pouring water down a sink with no plug in” unless social care also receives a funding boost, council leaders and health groups have...
A leading committee of MPs has pointed to a staggering 1.5 million avoidable A&E admissions as evidence of the government’s underfunding of preventative health care.
Facts and figures from the June 2018 edition of Public Finance magazine with information on the EU workforce in the public sector, London’s population, intergenerational support and the future of the...
An investigation is to be launched into the response of fire services to the Grenfell Tower inferno in which 71 people died, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed.
