A lack of funding together with an unwillingness to change is holding back the adoption of technology in local government, according to a survey of council employees.
An increasing rate of drug-related deaths is a major public health concern that could end up costing public finances £700m, council leaders have warned.
The government has confirmed that 111 buildings have failed the latest cladding system tests, 90 of which are local authority or housing association run.
Whitehall has called on software firms to provide updated programmes to local councils so they can grant new levels of business rate relief to small businesses.
Early full-scale tests of cladding systems in the UK have revealed 47 local authority or housing association owned buildings have failed the fire safety tests.
Communities secretary Sajid Javid has named four members to the Grenfell Recovery Taskforce, which will oversee the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s efforts to recover from last month...
Local authorities have been given eight months to produce initial plans to tackle nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution produced by diesel-fuelled vehicles.
Claims by communities secretary Sajid Javid that no councils have asked for the financial support offered by the government after the Grenfell fire tragedy have been called into question.
Council housing managers have urged the government to halt the rolling introduction of Universal Credit, which they said is causing “considerable hardship” to tenants.
Cities should be trusted to get on with delivering economic growth while parliament remains distracted by Brexit, according to a group representing the UK’s main cities outside London.
Teaching unions have blasted the government’s pledge to increase school budgets by £1.3bn from efficiencies within the Department for Education as “smoke and mirrors”.
February’s housing white paper “signalled government has started to understand some of the key issues” that hold back housing delivery, CIPFA conference heard from Eamonn Boylan,...
Devolution done well could deliver growth that would cancel out the damage that will be done to the economy by Brexit, CIPFA conference delegates have heard.
Concern about public sector pay limits has focused on NHS and emergency service workers. But pay for more than a million school and council workers has been kept down for longer and it’s time...
CIPFA has called on local government to be alert for five warning signs of financial stress and has set out how it can build resilience into plans and operations.
The six mayor-led combined authorities risk becoming “a curiosity of history” as there is little evidence to back their assumption that devolution will improve local economies.
Councils face a funding gap of £5.8bn by 2020 and should be “at the front of the queue” for spending if the government retreats from austerity, according to the Local...
