The government is not on track to meet its target to improve the lives of 120,000 troubled families before the next general election, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has sent an inspection team to examine allegations of governance failure, poor financial management and fraud at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The deteriorating condition of roads in England and Wales has become a national crisis, councils have warned today, with a total repair backlog now standing at £12bn
Councils in England are to share £410m to fund plans to bring together local public service, reduce duplication and cut costs, Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles announced today
Local authorities in England are continuing to reduce the amount of council tax support they make available to poor households, a study examining plans for year two of the new regime has found.
The government’s changes to Housing Benefit, including the introduction of the so-called bedroom tax, are causing financial hardship to vulnerable people, MPs have warned today
Council workers will today hold protests across the UK as trade unions step up their campaign for an improved pay offer from local government employers.
CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman has called on ministers to preserve current governance standards in local government rather than allow them to be eroded further
New outsourced audit contracts could save local authorities as much as £80m by the end of the decade as a result of lower fees, the Audit Commission announced today.
Combined city authorities should be given the same powers as the Mayor of London to levy taxes for infrastructure and oversee planning, a think-tank has said.
The new chair of Scotland’s local government spending watchdog has told the country’s 32 councils they will have to be more innovative and open-minded about service delivery to meet renewed budgetary...
County councils have welcomed the government’s decision to bring forward an extension to the Troubled Families Programme in the Budget, and said the scheme could be used to expand pooled funding to...
Two-third of councils have agreed to accept the government’s grant to freeze council tax from next month, Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles announced today.
The Audit Commission has announced that it will provide a rebate totalling £8m to local authorities as part of preparations for its closure next March.
Most local authorities have increased the rationing of social care for the over-65s in response to government cuts, leading to significant drops in the number of people receiving home-delivered meals...
The funding system for local government could cease to work effectively within a decade due to constraints placed on councils, the chief executive of CIPFA has told MPs
A £130m City Deal signed between the government, Leicester and Leicestershire councils will create 1,400 new jobs and 4,000 apprenticeships to tackle youth unemployment in the region, Deputy Prime...
The government agency announced by George Osborne to lead the creation of a garden city at Ebbsfleet in Kent must be given a ‘blank sheet of paper’ free from council planning agreements, the chair of...
Plans to create a municipal bond agency could save councils nearly £1.5bn in lower borrowing costs, according to the latest analysis by the Local Government Association
CIPFA is to take over the Audit Commission’s counter-fraud work when the watchdog is wound up next year and establish a national centre of excellence in counter-fraud, it has been announced today
Trade unions are to consult council staff on industrial action after the Local Government Association offered most employees a below-inflation 1% pay increase from next month.
