The government has confirmed that the plans developed by the four ‘whole place’ Community Budget pilots across England will be implemented from next month.
Councils in the North of England should issue a collective municipal bond to raise funds for capital projects, the Institute for Public Policy Research said today.
Plans to establish Community Budgets across England have taken a step forward after the government wrote to councils offering help to pool local funding across the public sector.
Competing calls to increase growth and further reduce spending and taxes resulted in a Budget that was ‘muddling through at best’, Jonathan Portes told CIPFA's World-Class Performance Symposium.
You wouldn't know it from the headline figures, but local government, along with some other unprotected and unloved public services, looks likely to face at least 50 per cent spending cuts...
Government support worth more than £130bn is to be made available to help people buy a home, Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Budget statement.
Local authorities could face a ‘deluge’ of legal challenges over social care services unless the government clarifies which costs count towards the planned lifetime cap on charges, MPs and peers...
Whitehall funds for training, housing and transport are to be devolved into single cash pots for Local Enterprise Partnerships, ministers announced today in their response to the Heseltine growth...
The National Fraud Initiative has uncovered £1bn in incorrect and dishonestly obtained payments in the UK since its establishment in 1996, the Audit Commission announced today.
The first internal audit standards to apply across the whole of the public sector will help ensure transparency and accountability at a time of spending cuts, CIPFA has said.
The High Court today threw out nine of the ten objections to the planned High Speed 2 rail line, but ruled that the government consultation on compensation was unfair.
More than a quarter of a million extra school places will be needed in England next year, but it is not clear if the Department for Education has provided enough funding to meet demand, auditors...
Small firms are unenthusiastic about councils’ new power to levy supplementary business rates for local projects, believing it will not make a difference to local economies, a survey has indicated.
The public sector is ‘woefully underprepared’ for the impact of an ageing society and urgent government action is needed to avert a crisis in English health and social care services, peers warned...
Auditors have criticised Scottish councils’ management of major capital projects after finding most schemes were late and cost ‘significantly’ more than first estimated.
Design principles should be incorporated into public services to help make them more streamlined, relevant and useful, according to a report published today.
The four ‘whole place’ Community Budget pilots in England show that integrated spending could lead to cheaper and better services, the National Audit Office said today.
A think-tank has been criticised for suggesting that people who live a healthy lifestyle should be able to jump to the front of the queue for non-emergency NHS treatments and operations.
Delays in the government’s school restoration programme are costing councils millions of pounds in repair bills, the Local Government Association said today.
People with dementia are not receiving the help they need because health and care services are ‘struggling’ to cope, the Care Quality Commission has warned.
Fire safety programmes across England are likely to be reduced over the next five years as government cuts bite, the Local Government Association warned today.
