Devolved administrations in the nations and regions of the UK are increasingly getting the blame when public services go wrong, but Whitehall still carries the can where division of power is murky, a...
Councils’ spending on looked-after children rose by 4% in the four years to the end of 2012/13, despite a 12% increase in the number of children they are responsible for over the same period, Audit...
The policy to raise the compulsory participation age in education and training to 18 next year lacks the legal underpinning it needs to be a success, the Work Foundation has warned.
Councils should be allowed to retain more receipts from locally raised taxes and to introduce new levies, the London borough of Camden has told the independent commission into council finance.
Local authorities should offer council tax rebates to people who spend significant time volunteering in parks and other green spaces, a report by the centre-Right think-tank Policy Exchange has...
The government's flagship free school meals policy faces significant underfunding after it has emerged that nearly half of all local authorities do not have enough money to bring their school...
A programme to support troubled families has been expanded to help vulnerable younger children get a better start in life, the government announced today.
A programme supporting families facing multiple problems will be expanded by more than four times to help some 500,000 households, the government announced today.
Some 36 priority housing projects are to receive a share of £850m to help get construction started, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today.
Councils will be able to join forces with developers to bid for a share of £200m in cash to build new homes on previously-developed land, housing and planning minister Brandon Lewis has announced.
Elected mayors with economic development powers should be introduced to city regions in the north of England in a bid to tackle the ‘brain drain’ of skilled workers, Policy Exchange has said today.
Children’s mental health services need a complete overhaul to address ‘unacceptable failings’ and provide better care and support for young people, councils have said today.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has confirmed that new limits will be placed on how much councils and housing associations can charge leaseholders for repair work.
Councils are to be given powers to introduce tighter regulation of streetworks after the government said it would lift restrictions on the use of local permit schemes that are intended to coordinate...
A consultation on creating a development corporation responsible for delivering a garden city of up to 15,000 homes in Ebbsfleet has been launched by Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles today.
Fire minister Penny Mordaunt has launched an independent review of firefighters’ terms and conditions as the Fire Brigades Union hold a series of strikes in a lengthy dispute over pensions.
All political parties have been urged to commit to council tax revaluation in the next parliament by the British Property Federation, which said most voters would see little change after a review.
Twenty councils from across England have been selected for the expansion of a Whitehall programme to help central and local government cut costs by sharing offices and other property.
Plans to devolve new money and civic powers to the north of England are to be worked up over the next five months in order to form the centrepiece of December’s Autumn Statement, Chancellor George...
