Ministers have confirmed the 2015/16 local government finance settlement, delivering a further £74m to upper-tier authorities for additional support with social care and welfare needs.
The range of community rights introduced by the coalition government to allow local people to run public services and take over assets like pubs and post offices should be strengthened to encourage...
Taxpayers are losing more than £800m a year because of the ‘bums on seats’ system of funding post-16 education, the Local Government Association has warned.
County council areas received around one-third less than cities in the government’s latest £1bn funding round for local growth deals, an analysis has found.
Local government minister Kris Hopkins has put forward reforms that will make it easier for councillors to scrutinise and approve in-year budget changes.
A Whitehall-commissioned review has urged councils to do more to increase housing supply, but has been criticised for failing to recommend changes to the Housing Revenue Account, which limits...
Health and social care integration must eventually be expanded to cover all public spending for these services, rather than just applying to the £5.3bn pooled in the Better Care Fund, former health...
Further cuts to council funding in the next parliament could threaten the viability of statutory services such as adult social care and child protection in the most deprived areas, MPs have warned.
Academy funding must be made more transparent and new rules governing spending are needed to tackle possible conflicts of interest in the sector, the education select committee has said.
Councils could save up to £10bn by the end of the decade through smarter and more collaborative use of technology and data, the Policy Exchange think-tank has claimed.
Eric Pickles has appointed a former Audit Commission senior official and a council leader and chief executive to an expert group tasked with helping Birmingham City Council implement a wide-ranging...
The Local Government Association has set out proposals to modify its cross-sector improvement regime for councils to ensure moves towards Community Budgets and other place-based funding deals are...
Public workers' pay remains under pressure as the deficit stubbornly refuses to shrink. But what counts as public sector pay in a world of outsourcing to the private sector and what does the...
Relaxing the rules governing the formation of combined authorities will remove barriers to fiscal devolution across England, the chair of the Commons communities and local government select committee...
The minister says local authority funding is only being cut by an average 1.8%. But this includes ring-fenced money that makes it harder for councils to find savings
Cities in the south of England accounted for over 90% of UK’s job growth in the last decade, according to the think-tank Centre for Cities’ annual Cities Outlook.
The Department for Communities and Local Government’s new permanent secretary should ensure that mature debate should replace rhetoric and spin that can emanate from Whitehall
Councils lose at least £18m a year due to government rules that stop them from charging pubs, nightclubs and off-licences the cost of licence applications.
Whitehall incentives for local authorities to tackle Housing Benefit fraud and error are weak and being compounded by cuts in funding available to councils to administer it, the Public Accounts...
Schools could soon face a tipping point where there is no more space or money to offer extra places to pupils that need them, the Local Government Association has warned.
