Debate about levels of council tax is doomed to go nowhere unless we consider what we’re willing to pay for services and how, says the Local Government Information Unit’s Jonathan Carr-West.
Can an integrated approach to how NHS organisations work – both with each other and local authorities – help it to better manage income and demand for services? Alison Moore reports.
Today marks one year since the Homelessness Reducation Act came into force. John Glenton from The Riverside Group housing association suggests how councils can meet their duties under this act....
Northamptonshire County Council’s finances “remain fragile” due to a lack of robust reserves and require savings of £40m, its finance commissioner Brian Roberts has told PF.
Northamptonshire County Council’s commissioners have called for the local authority’s section 114 notice to be lifted, saying it should move from “under the shadow of this failure”.
Labour is right to identify outsourcing failures but its new policy risks creating more problems than it addresses, argues Institute for Government’s Tom Sasse.
Brexit will have a “huge impact” on devolution with the process of handing down powers to the regions still continuing 20 years on, a think-tank has warned.
