Councils have been urged to back plans to create 39 local investment funds across England that could boost local third sector providers of public services.
Around £95m of public money is to be invested in Oxford to boost local growth, as part of the area’s City Deal, ministers announced today.
Oxford and its surrounding area will receive improvements to...
It is not yet clear what public sector bodies will take on some of the Audit Commission’s responsibilities after its abolition, the local spending watchdog said today as the date of its abolition was...
The Wales Audit Office has today said both Carmarthenshire County Council and Pembrokeshire Council acted unlawfully in allowing senior officers to opt-out of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Increasing demands are being made of the fledgling Education Funding Agency, but there are questions over its capacity to absorb new responsibilities and how its performance will be monitored,...
The Department of Health has accused the Local Government Association of making ‘misleading’ claims about the cost of planned universal deferred payment agreements for adult social care
Councils in Wales are beginning to crack under spending pressures and many need to quickly improve their plans to make efficiency savings amid increasing cuts, the auditor general for Wales has warned
Housing minister Kris Hopkins today set out a plan to support the construction of 165,000 homes over three years under the Homes and Communities Agency’s Affordable Homes Programme
CIPFA has reiterated its opposition to a government proposal to ditch the independent protection against dismissal offered to council Section 151 officers, warning that it could undermine the post’s...
Cities across the UK are falling further behind London and need to be given greater financial powers to grow alongside the capital, a report by the Centre for Cities has found today.
Finance professionals in public sector bodies must drive efficiency programmes in their organisations to ensure services are protected from ‘really challenging’ funding cuts, the head of a government...
Serious failings in the use of confidentiality clauses in public sector severence deals means they have been used to cover up failure and pay off whistleblowers, the Public Accounts Committee said...
The government today asked the European Union to approve plans to extend a fuel duty rebate to rural areas to seven additional locations in England and Scotland
CIPFA and the Local Government Association have today announced their intention to create of an independent commission to examine the future of local government finance.
Four out of five local authorities reduced entitlement to help with council tax bills after responsibility for Council Tax Benefit was devolved to the local level last April, the Institute for Fiscal...
The true cost of delivering local authority services in Scotland is being under-estimated by nearly £1bn per annum, a deficit equivalent to £175 for every individual in the land, CIPFA Scotland has...
A majority of people responding to Birmingham City Council's consultation on its future spending plans support an increase in council tax of 2% or above from April, council leader Sir Albert Bore has...
The number of councils in Wales should be cut by around half to save money and ensure they are able to provide quality services amid funding pressures, a report commissioned by the Welsh Government...
The government’s expanded neighbourhood community budgets programme has been opened for applications from groups wanting to develop reforms to local public services.
Plymouth’s city region is to receive a £34m funding package from government to boost the region’s marine and advanced manufacturing industry as part of its City Deal with ministers.
