Design principles should be incorporated into public services to help make them more streamlined, relevant and useful, according to a report published today.
The four ‘whole place’ Community Budget pilots in England show that integrated spending could lead to cheaper and better services, the National Audit Office said today.
A think-tank has been criticised for suggesting that people who live a healthy lifestyle should be able to jump to the front of the queue for non-emergency NHS treatments and operations.
Delays in the government’s school restoration programme are costing councils millions of pounds in repair bills, the Local Government Association said today.
People with dementia are not receiving the help they need because health and care services are ‘struggling’ to cope, the Care Quality Commission has warned.
Fire safety programmes across England are likely to be reduced over the next five years as government cuts bite, the Local Government Association warned today.
The number of people working in local government has fallen by almost 400,000, or 14%, since the coalition took office in 2010, the GMB union said today.
There are still big gaps in childcare provision in the UK despite councils’ obligations to ensure adequate services, according to a survey published today.
The government should abolish the Highways Agency and devolve its funding to councils and other local bodies, a report commissioned by the Local Government Association has concluded.
The way senior managers’ pay rises were decided at Caerphilly County Borough Council last year was unlawful, auditors have ruled in a public interest report.
More than half of the town halls developing new Council Tax Benefit schemes to take effect in April will receive cash to keep bills down, local government minister Brandon Lewis announced today.
The government’s proposals on long-term care have been broadly welcomed but there are concerns that they do nothing to address chronic under-funding in the sector.
The Local Government Association has urged the Treasury to back plans for a municipal bonds agency in the Budget, warning that councils could miss out on investment from pension funds if ministers...
Four out of ten councils in England are planning to raise their council tax from April, despite the offer of a government freeze grant, a CIPFA survey has revealed.
Revenue income and spending by Scottish local authorities both fell slightly in the year to April 2012, while capital expenditure rose by more than £300m, according to the annual survey by the...
