Fire brigades across England are now involved in a range of projects aimed at improving the health of their communities following devolution of public health responsibilities to local authorities, a...
Councils and other providers are being asked to come forward with “innovative and flexible” ideas on how they can deliver 30 hours of free childcare a week, which will take effect in September 2016.
Campaigners have called for a government-backed road scheme in Norfolk to be scrapped after it was confirmed that the cost had increased by one-fifth to £180m.
The theft of the blue badges that allow disabled people greater discretion over where they park their car, has doubled in the last year, according to figures published by the Local Government...
The forthcoming Spending Review represents the litmus test of whether the government is committed to funding a “radical upgrade” in public health provision, the King’s Fund has said.
Local transport infrastructure is in line to take a large proportion of government cuts in the forthcoming Spending Review because funding for national road and rail networks is essentially...
The government has been urged to allow councils to join forces to take over regulation of bus services, as part of an effort to improve the effectiveness of public subsidies.
As austerity has pushed down on public services, a plethora of risks and uncertainties have popped up in response. A recent Public Finance roundtable debated the issues at stake
A forthcoming report by the Electoral Reform Society is to raise concerns that local authorities dominated by a single political party appear more prone to corruption than councils where there is a...
No mayor in the capital has yet taken seriously the body that is meant to hold them to account. It needs extra powers around spending and laws to give it the teeth needed for an age of devolution
Former local government secretary Sir Eric Pickles has launched a government investigation into electoral fraud in Britain in order to tackle what he called “modern-day rotten boroughs”.
Ministers could take the power to decide on fracking applications away from local authorities that do not make decisions on developments within 16 weeks, it has been announced.
All but six of Scotland’s 32 councils are failing to comply with a six-year-old minimum recommended level of school clothing grants to disadvantaged families, and two have cut their payment...
The consultation on the £200m in-year cut to local authorities’ public health grant has emerged very late in the day. The November Spending Review will be a litmus test of the government...
The Local Government Association has called on the government to give unpaid carers to be given a £100 council tax reduction in recognition of their vital role in the “chronically-...
Three councils are to face a judicial review following concerns that the authorities are favouring in-house foster services over those from external providers.
Local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) will be the key players in deciding how £2.5bn worth of European Regional Development Fund money is spent to support local projects that promote economic...
