David Cameron today set out a wide-ranging package of reforms to create a “smarter state”, with widespread devolution, a focus on early intervention, and integration of blue light services among the...
Using data to predict risks can sound like science fiction, but it has the potential to help the public sector manage demand more effectively and improve targeting of scarce resources.
Councils could be placed on ‘a fast tack to financial failure’ if the government implemented a policy to force authorities to spend their reserves to make up for cuts in funding, the...
The Local Government Association has confirmed that councils are in negotiations with government to devise a long-term plan for the settlement of refugees after David Cameron said the UK would take...
The Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill is moving quickly through parliament, but its implications for the NHS remain unclear. These are some of the key issues that need to be considered.
The Local Government Association has warned today that the condition of local roads could continue to deteriorate unless the government provides additional resources for maintenance.
The London Borough of Croydon is to receive £102m from the European Investment Bank to improve schools across the borough, the first time that an EIB loan has been agreed for this purpose.
Local authorities that take in refugees from the crisis in Syria are to be given funding from the UK’s international development budget, ministers have confirmed today.
Scottish Ministers are facing mounting pressure to reverse previous opposition, and allow councils to levy supplementary taxes, such as charges on hotel stays or workplace parking spaces.
Councils have said they are ready to play their part in accepting more refugees from the crisis in Syria after Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed plans to take in “thousands more”.
As much as £60bn could be devolved to local authorities under proposals submitted to Whitehall today, with local retention of business rates and greater control of health and economic...
The Northern Powerhouse proposals represent the biggest growth opportunity for the North of England since the Victorian era, the IPPR North think-tank has said, but must be backed with investments in...
Local authorities and the voluntary and community sector serve the same communities and individuals. As further government cuts are likely in the Spending Review, it is in their mutual interest to...
If the forthcoming government Spending Review was able to protect three key areas of local government funding, councils would be better placed to respond to a range of cost pressures
Birmingham City Council is to receive a £4.37m grant from the Department for Communities and Local Government to quicken implementation of its reform programme.
Local Government Association chair Gary Porter is to join the House of Lords after being given a life peerage in the dissolution honours list for the last parliament.
The number of debt recovery cases sent by local councils to bailiffs has increased by one-sixth in just over two years, figures from the Money Advice Trust have revealed.
Fire brigades across England are now involved in a range of projects aimed at improving the health of their communities following devolution of public health responsibilities to local authorities, a...
Councils and other providers are being asked to come forward with “innovative and flexible” ideas on how they can deliver 30 hours of free childcare a week, which will take effect in September 2016.
Campaigners have called for a government-backed road scheme in Norfolk to be scrapped after it was confirmed that the cost had increased by one-fifth to £180m.
The theft of the blue badges that allow disabled people greater discretion over where they park their car, has doubled in the last year, according to figures published by the Local Government...
