Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has committed the party to implement the One North plan to improve transport link across the North of England and boost growth.
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has revealed the coalition is on track to reduce the number of government buildings in central London to just 23 by 2020, by moving offices to the suburbs.
Welfare spending cuts mean that three-quarters of councils will have to scrap or significantly reduce support schemes for vulnerable people from next April, the Local Government Association has...
Councils will need to set out more details about their spending of parking charges and plans to tackle fraud under a revised transparency code being introduced by the Department for Communities and...
The Local Government Association has formed a new company to oversee outsourced local audit contracts once the Audit Commission is abolished next March.
The current system for business rate retention is not effective as it does not give local authorities the ability to support growth, the leader of Westminster City Council has said.
The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has defended moves by some councils to exploit the unprecedented rush of voter registrations ahead of the independence referendum to track down people who...
Former local government minister Bob Neill has said the government should set a target for half of the total tax take in England to be devolved to councils and combined authorities.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has set out details of two new government housing schemes that are intended to open home ownership to more first-time buyers.
More powers for Scotland must be matched by devolution of tax, spending and welfare powers in England and Wales, according to a poll of council leaders and Cabinet members.
William Hague has said the Conservatives are ‘wholeheartedly committed’ to increasing the autonomy of Scotland and Wales, but indicated this must be matched with reforms to ensure that only English...
A pay offer that would have given council workers a 2.2% increase over 15 months was put before unions in return for them abandoning next month’s strike action, the Local Government Association has...
Nearly a quarter of councils have useable reserves that amount to less than 10% of their spending, according to a report published by the Audit Commission, including more than half (55%) of unitary...
Stop-go funding deals for road repairs have made it difficult for local authorities to maintain roads cost-effectively and has put value for money at risk, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
As NHS staff ballot on industrial action – and discontent rises over pay and salary progression throughout the public sector – years of severe pay restraint are taking their toll
The Welsh National Assembly’s Finance Committee has turned to Scotland, and to CIPFA, for specialist counsel in scrutinising the Welsh Government’s 2015/16 Budget
The centralised UK state has become increasing ineffective in dealing with the country’s problems and there is a need for ‘devo max’ to communities, shadow Home Office minister Steve Reed has said.
All but the poorest pensioners could be asked to contribute more under proposals for the biggest shake-up to the way health and social care is paid for since the NHS was founded
Labour has been accused of ‘abdicating its responsibility’ to reform council tax by proposing a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2m without setting out plans for a wider revaluation.
No solution has yet been found to the problem of how to introduce greater fiscal devolution in England while also maintaining elements of redistribution, shadow local government secretary Hilary Benn...
Senior Labour party figures have indicated the party is unlikely to lift the current cap on local authority borrowing for housing if it wins the next election.
Councils should be allowed to establish and run academies, the Policy Exchange think-tank has recommended as it warned that a fifth of primary schools ‘could be set to fail’.
Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has said that proposals to increase the minimum wage to £8 an hour will form part of the next Labour government’s ‘driving purpose’ to tackle levels of low pay...
Northern cities are being promised major new infrastructure investment to help rebalance their economies. So will the chancellor make good on his warm words of support for the One North initiative...
