The move to give Greater Manchester control of health spending is closer to delegation than devolution because of Whitehall’s reluctance to relinquish power, a review by the Institute for Public...
Public service reform is difficult, particularly within the Westminster system. But there are practical changes that could be made to help make progress.
Actively listening to local areas about what policies are working – and not working – must be high on the new government’s agenda. Sharing of progress, challenges and setbacks is vital to making real...
The Early Intervention Foundation has called for a Whitehall evaluation of David Cameron’s flagship Troubled Families programme to be published in full after after reports claimed the review found...
The government should revise its infrastructure strategy to prioritise investment in the North of England in order to promote growth and prosperity, a think tank has said.
Prime minister Theresa May has set out possible changes to how local shale wealth funds created from shale gas exploration will operate, with distribution of money to local residents now considered...
Many PFI contracts are trapped in their current terms out of fear of the costs of change and a desire not to show weakness to the other side. But this is not sustainable in the face of increasing...
Public sector borrowing is set to increase by around £47bn over the next four years as the economy slows following the Brexit vote, economic researchers have forecast.
Following the Brexit vote, the London Finance Commission has a unique opportunity to develop proposals for further fiscal devolution that create incentives to boost growth. But it must get the...
A more robust approach to public service integration, including increased sharing of both best practice and failures, is needed for such initiatives to be successful across the country, a review has...
NHS England has said it intends to appeal against a judgment that ruled it can commission and fund a treatment that prevents the transmission of HIV among high-risk men.
Dealing with the effects of poverty costs the public purse around £78bn a year, equivalent to around 4% of the UK’s gross domestic product, according to research published today.
Growing uncertainty over the future of European funding for infrastructure and regeneration projects across England will hit economic growth unless there is clarity from government soon, councils...
Councils should be reinstated as major builders of affordable housing to assuage the deepening housing crisis, a report by the Local Government Association has argued.
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.
