Seven councils and two local enterprise partnerships have formed a new development zone intended to boost development around the route of the proposed High Speed 2 rail line.
Cuts to social care budgets in local government are putting extra pressure on NHS services, according to over 80% of heath service finance directors who responded to a King’s Fund poll.
Implementation of 40% spending cuts to council funding in next month’s Spending Review would deliver a “knockout blow” to many local services, according to analysis from the Local...
Milton Keynes’ ambitious plan for growth is leading to the development of new ways to use data so transport and other key networks can cope with increased demand
The government’s plan to let councils in England keep 100% of business rates is set to herald a wide-ranging re-examination of Whitehall support to town halls, the local government minister has...
Credit to George Osborne for the progress made on fiscal devolution by setting out a plan to localise business rates, but this must only be the beginning, not the end.
More than 200 frontline public sector organisations could be in “financial distress” by the end of the parliament due to planned funding cuts, an analysis by Deloitte and the think-tank...
Further details of plans to sell high-value council houses to fund the extension of Right to Buy to housing association tenants has been revealed in legislation introduced to parliament.
Introduction of the national living wage is a welcome development. But it raises some big questions about the feasibility and fairness of pay restraint in the public sector.
Urgent steps must be taken to plug the funding gap in adult social care if councils are to continue to provide dignified care for elderly and disabled people, senior local government figures warned...
Michael O’Higgins, former chair of the Pensions Regulator, has been appointed to chair the Lancashire County Pension Fund and London Pension Fund Authority's investment partnership.
Councils in England and Wales have now recovered another portion of the more than £1bn in deposits that was lost when the Icelandic banking system collapsed in 2008.
District councils must play a key role in forthcoming devolution deals by agreeing to take on a greater share of the cost of local economic development and early intervention projects, a report has...
Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to boost home ownership as part of what he called a “turnaround decade” in Britain, with planning changes set to regard a programme of ‘...
Moves to create six British Wealth Funds from local government pension fund assets is an opportunity to improve governance across the sector, a senior figure told a CIPFA event at the Conservative...
Parents who persistently allow their children to miss school will have their Child Benefit docked if they fail to pay fines, the prime minister has announced.
Local government should be able to take over failing public services from Whitehall through an expansion of existing “right to challenge” powers, a report by the think-tank Respublica has...
Councils are to retain all locally raised business rates by the end of the decade under radical local government finance reforms set out by George Osborne today. The changes will also end the...
Government plans to double the amount of free childcare available for three- and four-year-old children could be underfunded by as much as £1bn, according to a analysis by the Institute for...
Councils dominated by one political party achieve lower procurement savings than more competitive authorities, with the difference as much as £2.6bn a year, according to an Electoral Reform...
