A fresh dispute is emerging over the way business rates should be distributed among councils ahead of the shake-up of the local government finance system.
City councils should be able to retain the bulk of their business rates while Whitehall funding should be devolved to create ‘area growth budgets’ for local services, according to a report published...
Local authorities planning changes to social care services will find it difficult to prove the impact on disabled people, which will leave them open to legal challenge, Public Finance has been told.
The mood music has changed and, since the May 5 elections, the relationship will never be the same again. So, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats locked into a loveless coalition, what does...
Birmingham City Council is to re-examine its plans to cut social care for some disabled adults after a High Court ruling found that it had acted unlawfully
The government should give councils with clear rules on their role in the Big Society to avoid the project being lost amid cuts, an influential report has found today
Councils should encourage volunteers to be on standby to help clear roads blocked by snow as part of attempts to boost the UK’s resilience to winter weather, MPs have said.
Adult social care laws in England and Wales should be ‘radically overhauled’ in preparation for a more coherent system, according to the Law Commission.
Ambitions to outsource local authority services to the voluntary or private sectors could take as long as a decade to achieve, Public Finance has been told.
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Andy Sawford, chief executive of the Local Government Information Unit, gives an analysis of the May 2011 local elections. He tells Public Finance what the results mean for council...
Faced with the need to save money, public bodies are rushing to sell off their buildings. But there is another way – looking at public sector assets as a whole and working out how to make better use...
