Councils could stand to generate substantial financial surpluses by setting up local housing companies with developers and registered social landlords, it emerged this week.
Local government leaders' eyes are firmly fixed on the detail of the forthcoming Revenue Support Grant for some certainty on exactly where the Comprehensive Spending Review settlement has left them.
Costs of £28m for a controversial asylum centre that was never built could have been reduced through better Home Office planning, the National Audit Office has said.
Older people face a postcode lottery of follow-up care after falling and fracturing bones, according to a national audit by the Royal College of Physicians.
Delayed discharge from hospital is compromising the health and independence of vulnerable older people and damaging wider health service delivery, according to a hard-hitting report by the Wales...
Ways to cope with the economic and social implications of an ageing society are at last on the government's to-do list. Public Finance and Deloitte convened a round table of politicians and policy...
The Comprehensive Spending Review held no surprises with only small increases in budgets. But how does this match with the rising needs of vulnerable older people, asks Anne Williams
Local authorities are to be offered incentives to free land for housing and make better use of empty properties, under government plans published on October 26.
John Healey has hit back at local government leaders for complaining about the recent Comprehensive Spending Review settlement, saying councils must be more commercial and not look to the government...
A £250m contingency fund should be created by the Treasury to help councils facing unplanned costs and potential community tensions because of poor immigration monitoring, town hall leaders have...
Civil service workers were set for a national strike after members of the Public and Commercial Services union voted for action over job cuts, pay and privatisation.
There is a rich stream of 'untapped' funding from the private sector that could be used to improve Britain's transport infrastructure, ministers have said.
Councils in Scotland will have access to a £70m fund if they agree to freeze council tax bills under proposals being considered by Finance Secretary John Swinney.
The Scottish National Party government has once more signalled its determination to go its own way with radical proposals to reform housing, including ending council house tenants' right to buy.
Local government leaders and environmental campaigners are awaiting further details after ministers set out proposals allowing councils to trial 'save-as-you-throw' recycling schemes.
The government wants neighbourhoods and communities to run more services. But with an eye-wateringly tight local government financial settlement, how will this be funded? Peter Hetherington...
District councils are devastated and lawyers shocked. Last month a judge found that the secretary of state could press on with plans for unitary authorities before her powers to do so had become law
