Council workers in most of the UK will receive a £1,925 increase to their salaries this year, after the majority of unions voted to accept a pay offer following months of negotiations.
A Welsh council has admitted there is “more to be done” to improve its asset management after the national watchdog warned the authority it does not hold all the appropriate data.
A charge on workplace car parking – the first of its kind in Scotland – could make millions for City of Edinburgh Council to invest in transport infrastructure.
A London council will spend more than £1m per year on payments to young people in further education, effectively replacing a government scheme scrapped amid austerity, and a bursary for students.
Ministers must scrap the patchwork system of bidding pots for local government and consider allowing councils to raise their own taxes, a parliamentary committee has said.
Local audit firms have been told by the Financial Reporting Council to “urgently” improve the quality and timeliness of their work, after the number of unacceptable audits rose last year.
External auditors have told Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council it needs to work out how it will balance its future budgets, warning that it lacks “appropriate arrangements” to run its...
County council leaders have warned that they face a financial situation worse than at any point in recent years, with services at risk, if their budgets are cut in the government’s push for savings.
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council is to explore the possibility of selling some of its assets to avoid using £20m of government financing flexibilities this year.
The government’s flagship policy is at risk of failure without more targeted funding for schools, local authorities and public health, economists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies have said.
Councils could need to shrink projects they have submitted to the Levelling Up Fund because the government has refused to adjust the pot for inflation, a senior minister has said.
Failures in the local audit market are leading to “increasingly incomplete and unreliable” data in central government reporting with councils left in the dark over spending decisions, the Public...
Staff at Liverpool City Council will target improvements to contract management and governance, after an independent report criticised a “fragmented, overly complex and poorly understood”...
Shropshire Council must “radically change” its passive approach to ensure it can meet the financial challenges it faces, a peer review from the Local Government Association has found.
Leicester City Council is set to place three office buildings for sale or lease after the rise of hybrid working left the properties surplus to requirements.
