Whitehall does not fully understand the scale of the social care challenge facing local authorities or the costs associated with implementing the Care Act, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
NHS chief executive Simon Stevens today set out plans for the health service and councils to work together to give people with high care needs greater control over their treatment as part of a ‘big...
The first issue of municipal bond is set to go ahead next spring after the Local Government Association confirmed it had raised more than seven times the necessary funding to launch the agency.
The Local Government Association has called on the next government to create local education trusts to drive school improvement across England and end the confusion over accountability following the...
The next government must seize the opportunity to devolve financial powers to city regions in England, the Commons’ local government select committee has recommended.
Public sector workers are more than £2,000 worse off since the coalition government came to power in 2010 as a result of pay restrictions, the Trades Union Congress said today.
The new chair of the Local Government Association has called for councils to be given new powers to coordinate local employment support after warning that millions could be left without suitable work...
Labour has proposed the creation of local public accounts committees to monitor the value for money and performance of public services under plans to devolve greater control of spending.
Ministers have altered the rules governing the flagship Better Care Fund to allow it to support hospital services if local integration plans fail to reduce admissions.
The government today signed growth deals with each of the 39 local enterprise partnerships in England under the £2bn single pot reforms for economic development, but more than £250m...
Councils have called for part of the revenue from fuel duty to be given to local authorities so it can be used to quicken the pace of road repairs and avoid a crisis in the state of local...
Whitehall’s grant-making activities are not well co-ordinated and there is no central register of those currently in operation, the National Audit Office has said.
Nearly two-thirds of people say that they have seen no real change in council services despite reductions in local authority funding as part of the coalition government’s deficit reduction plan, a...
Government changes to the interest rate local authorities pay to borrow from the Public Works Loan Board have become a barrier to councils making decisions to invest in economic infrastructure, the...
Public Finance talks to Darra Singh, Chair of the Independent Local Government Finance Commission at the CIPFA Conference about the aims of the Commission, tax reform, integration and getting the...
Public servants must look beyond national borders and election cycles to meet the challenges of globalisation, the CIPFA conference heard from EY’s Uschi Schreiber.
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has called for an examination into the future of public audit following the abolition of the Audit Commission.
Spending cuts being imposed on councils mean that the statutory duties placed on town halls will need to be revisited, delegates at the CIPFA conference have heard.
There is little appetite among voters to pay higher taxes to support public services, and other options will be needed to pay for local government and the NHS in future, the CIPFA conference has...
CIPFA’s annual Tom Sowerby award for outstanding service to student education has been won by Paul Simpson, director of finance and procurement at Nottinghamshire County Council.
Local government staff need to engage in more ‘measured risk taking’, London Borough of Lewisham chief executive Barry Quirk has told today's CIPFA conference.
The austerity that followed the recession only hastened a crisis in public finances that would have happened anyway, polling expert Peter Kellner told the CIPFA conference.
