Many employees in local government and the NHS could be being paid in a way that can lead to tax avoidance, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
Shared services cannot compensate for 28% cuts to local government grants. But they can help break down silos and deliver more seamless outcomes to the public, the LGA's Peter Fleming says
Inadequate performance management systems are preventing Scottish local authorities from properly comparing their activities, according to the Accounts Commission.
Labour would create a ‘one budget’ health and social care system to ensure better integration between the different types of care, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said today.
Local government pension funds should join together into pooled investment groups to invest in local infrastructure schemes, the Smith Institute think-tank has said.
Councils could have to find an extra £5m to fund the Community Right to Bid, despite ministerial promises that any new burdens would be centrally financed, Unison has claimed.
It is abundantly clear that George Osborne’s Plan A has failed. Instead of just waiting for something to turn up, he needs to use the Autumn Statement to launch a radical programme for economic...
A successful outcome to the negotiations over next year’s local government pay deal is vital to ensure the future of the currently ‘moribund’ national pay framework for council workers, a senior...
A group of councils are considering the first major local government bond issue since the 1980s as part of proposals to back a range of green energy projects.
A senior Liberal Democrat in local government has warned that pay for some council workers could fall below the legal National Minimum Wage threshold next year if it is frozen for the fourth year in...
Failure to reform adult social care funding could leave the NHS short of cash and have a ‘severe impact’ on the quality of patient care, the NHS Confederation warned today.
Public sector net borrowing hit a record £14.41bn in August, the Office for National Statistics revealed today, compared with £14.37bn at the same time last year.
Councils should consider buying private buildings and land to boost local regeneration initiatives and create additional revenue, the New Local Government Network said today.
More than a third of council leaders and chief executives believe all local services could be outsourced to alternative providers, according to a survey.
