Plans to impose a 10% Housing Benefit cut on anyone unemployed for more than a year have been dropped from the government’s Welfare Reform Bill, published today.
Council leaders have criticised the Home Office for delaying an announcement on further cuts to Community Safety Partnerships until after most local authority budgets have been set.
Prime Minister David Cameron has defended his government’s controversial Big Society programme today, saying it was his ‘absolute passion’ and calling for ‘social recovery’ in Britain.
The Affordable Rent programme, which gives giving social housing providers the power to charge up to 80% of market rents, was officially launched today.
The Local Government Finance Settlement in Scotland was confirmed yesterday, with councils set to receive more than £11bn next year if they agree to a funding deal
Treasury plans to increase employee contributions to public sector pensions risk ‘breaking’ the system by prompting a mass exodus of members, the chief of one of the UK’s major schemes has warned.
Councils in three of England's biggest cities have linked up to propose an alternative to the current 'broken' local government finance system, with the aim of increasing self-sufficiency
English councils will be forced to name all staff paid more than £58,200 a year in the latest drive by Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles to cut waste.
Nine out of ten English local authorities are intending to share more frontline services over the next two years, according to a survey of senior managers published today.
The coalition government’s ‘Big Society’ plans were dealt a significant blow yesterday after key figures in one of its pilot areas washed their hands of the initiative.
Councils have denied government claims that they are axing bus services needlessly, arguing that the severity and speed of funding cuts leave them with no choice.
Councils could save billions of pounds a year by selling off property they own or rent and sharing buildings with other organisations, according to a report published today.
