Local authorities face a further two years of the council tax freeze and a 10% budget cut in the Spending Review for 2015/16, Chancellor George Osborne has said.
A new drive to help central and local government share offices and other buildings was launched yesterday, with 12 councils to be given extra Whitehall support to make better use of the public sector...
The Housing Revenue Account subsidy system is to be scrapped in Wales and councils put on a par with their English counterparts and made self-financing in terms of housing, the Treasury announced...
Sir Stephen Houghton, chair of Sigoma, has called for a new independent body to set council funding every three years, after warning that authorities could ‘wither away’ under the current finance...
Local government staff cuts are not even halfway done yet, with almost half a million workers set to be lost over the next four years, a survey has found.
The government’s Troubled Families Programme is to be expanded to provide targeted help to an extra 400,000 households at risk of suffering from a number of social problems, the Treasury has...
Funding for local bus services should be protected in Wednesday’s Spending Review, MPs said today. The Environmental Audit Committee said spending on buses was vital to ensuring that people were able...
Cuts to local government funding are ‘fundamentally restructuring UK society for the worse’ and ministers must protect the role of councils, Unison has warned.
The Treasury has launched an initiative to cut costs in projects built using the controversial Private Finance Initiative by urging private operators of hospitals and schools to agree to a code of...
Public sector employment in the UK continues to decline, falling by 22,000 to 5.7 million over the first three months of the year, official figures show.
More than 40% of council chief executives and leaders now fear Whitehall funding reductions will lead to frontline service cuts, a dramatic increase on the 2% who voiced these worries a year ago,...
Councils have warned that the government’s threat to remove local authorities from the process of recruiting and assessing potential child adopters could jeopardise recent improvements to the system.
A year on from the start of housing self-financing and most elements are working well. But the move to full depreciation accounting needs a bit more time
Thirteen existing enterprise zones have been shortlisted to share a £100m fund for investment in their local economies and infrastructure, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today.
Norfolk and the Isle of Wight are the first two local authorities to be visited by Ofsted inspectors under the watchdog’s new school improvement programme.
Local government could face cuts of up to 12% in the forthcoming Spending Review if the government decides to lessen the pain doled out to the Home Office and Ministry of Defence, the Institute for...
