Prime Minister David Cameron has said the next Conservative government would get Britain ‘back to living within its means’ by running a surplus on day-to-day government spending by 2017/18.
Local funding for bus services has been cut in half of authorities in the current financial year, a report by the Campaign for Better Transport group has found.
A £1m Planning Enforcement Fund has been created to help councils in England pay for legal action against developers who flout planning laws, the Department for Communities and Local Government has...
More than a million unemployed people are receiving no government support to get back into work as they fall between cracks of different national schemes, an analysis for the Local Government...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has signed a growth deal for the Greater Birmingham and Solihull local enterprise partnership, which includes funding to maximise the benefit of the proposed High...
Chancellor George Osborne has set out government plans to boost economic growth in the North West of England to the wider UK rate, which would generate an extra £18bn and put another 100,000 people...
Melanie Dawes, a senior civil servant in the Cabinet Office, is to replace Sir Bob Kerslake as permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
The government’s ‘bedroom tax’ has affected a greater proportion of tenants in Wales than in Scotland or England, an analysis by the Wales Audit Office has found.
Scotland’s new local government minister has mapped out ambitious plans for a broad-based assault on inequality, as well as a range of measures to strengthen public participation in policy making.
Only 45 councils are providing council tax benefit at the same level as before the support was cut and localised to town halls in 2013, figures from the Local Government Association have revealed.
Professor Julian Le Grand, who has advised the government on the creation of public sector mutuals and has undertaken a review of children’s services in Birmingham, is among the public sector...
The Home Office is to investigate the extent of the threat posed by organised crime to public services procured by councils as part of a government anti-corruption drive.
Councils face a 6% cut in spending power next year once ring-fenced funds and pooled resources are excluded from the Local Government Finance Settlement, an analysis by CIPFA has found.
Councils in England will face an average cut in spending power of 1.8% in 2015/16, local government minister Kris Hopkins has announced, but London boroughs and urban authorities will face larger...
The county councils of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire have proposed the creation of a combined authority to lead on economic development across existing local authority boundaries.
Local government secretary Eric Pickles has named the former chief fire and rescue adviser for England Sir Ken Knight as the lead commissioner in the government’s intervention into Tower Hamlets.
Removing the ring-fence from the local government public health grant could harm Public Health England’s ability to influence outcomes, the National Audit Office has warned.
Local authority chief finance officers are becoming less confident about the ability of their organisations to continue providing services amid government funding cuts, a CIPFA poll has revealed.
The first issue of a cross-sector local government bond is expected to take place next year after nearly 50 councils signed up to invest in the Local Government Association company that is developing...
Cities should be given greater financial incentives to tackle poverty by being allowed to retain more of the savings made from cutting unemployment, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has said.
The Sheffield city region has agreed a devolution deal with Whitehall that will give the combined authority more power over economic development, transport, skills and housing, Deputy Prime Minister...
The number of council-run libraries in the UK fell in the last financial year as cuts to local government funding continued to hit services, a survey by CIPFA has found.
