A charity has said carers across the UK have been left in “great distress” as government mistakes mean the Department for Work and Pensions is chasing them for a collective £150m.
A second referendum for Scottish independence should be held by 2021 if Brexit goes ahead, first minister Nicola Sturgeon has told the Scottish Parliament.
Our strategic authorities and city regions should be given a seat at the table of international trade for the sake of delivering place-prosperity, argues Localis’s Joe Fyans.
England is facing “democracy deserts” in next week’s local elections with 148 seats going totally uncontested, according to the Electoral Reform Society.
Local authority pothole cash, the army and apprenticeship figures and areas that have seen the biggest wage rises - all in the Numbers Game from the April 2019 edition of Public...
Benjamin Franklin might have had it right about the only certainties in life but that doesn’t mean the tax system can’t be improved, says CIPFA’s Rob Whiteman.
Council leaders have defended council executive pay after a campaign group’s research found the average local authority in the UK had six employees on salaries above £100,000 in 2017-18.
The largest growing area of fraud being detected or prevented by councils is business rates fraud, yet this represents only a fraction of the total, says CIPFA’s Marc McAuley.
Collaboration between the public sector and key providers such as construction groups can be used to create wider social value, says Bev Hurley of the Institute of Economic Development.
