Businesses are preparing to walk away from Local Enterprise Partnerships and the government needs urgently to increase their powers and funding, the Work Foundation has said.
Whitehall’s third council tax freeze offer has met with mixed reactions from councils, not least because it is another shift back from ‘localism’ to centralism.
Ministers have been urged to let councils across England take on more economic development powers as part of the City Deals programme, after 20 areas were shortlisted yesterday for greater devolution.
A member of the government’s Mutuals Taskforce has said some Whitehall departments need to do more to back employee-owned firms that could provide public services.
The first female general secretary of the TUC will have her work cut out dealing with public sector disputes and the union brothers. But don’t expect Frances O’Grady to start tub-thumping any time...
The Local Government Association has today called for councils to be given powers to monitor academy schools in areas where they now make up a majority of secondary schools.
Halfway through its term in office, the coalition is still looking for a route map to recovery. The chancellor’s Autumn Statement must offer some way out of here, argues Steve Freer
Plans to cut £150m from council funding for children’s services could ‘severely hamper’ town halls’ early intervention programmes and put Sure Start children’s centres at risk, the Local Government...
The government’s reforms to public sector pensions will reduce the average value of an individual’s scheme by more than a third, an independent assessment by the Pensions Policy Institute has...
Birmingham City Council is preparing the ground for spending cuts of more than £120m next year, warning that it will have to discontinue some services entirely.
Hopes that the three year council pay freeze could end next year have increased after local government employers indicated they were prepared to make an ‘appropriate’ offer to unions.
Public sector net borrowing in September was £12.8bn, down £700m compared to the same month last year, the Office for National Statistics has revealed today.
The coalition government has very little knowledge or understanding of the impact its public sector workforce cuts are having, the Work Foundation warned today.
Two local authority pension funds are among the six founding investors in a Treasury-backed agency set up to boost investment in capital projects across the UK.
CIPFA has criticised the government offer of cash for Council Tax Benefit schemes that limit the amount working-age people will have to pay as 'badly timed' and 'confusing'.
