First Minister Alex Salmond has launched the Scottish National Party election manifesto with a promise to freeze the council tax for the full five years of the next Holyrood term if his party is...
England's richest areas pay the highest council tax per head, and poorer ones receive the most grant, the government has said in an effort to prove the system is fair
Fire and rescue services have been distracted from their work by ‘the previous government’s management from the centre’, fire minister Bob Neill has said in his response to a review of the service.
Social workers have paid too little attention to children's views and to adults with potentially useful information on abuses, an Ofsted report on serious case reviews has found
Prime Minister David Cameron has urged councils to adopt a ‘common sense’ approach to the organisation of street parties to celebrate the upcoming royal wedding.
Almost all English local authorities are slashing senior and middle management costs to help balance their budgets, but libraries and Sure Start centres are also in the line of fire, according to a...
Seventeen communities have been chosen to pilot ‘neighbourhood planning’, which is set to come into force in England when the Localism Bill becomes law.
A local government think-tank has called for citizens to be given a leading role in the audit regime that follows the abolition of the Audit Commission
The Ministry of Defence is to be broken up and control of the armed forces handed to local authorities under the next phase of the government’s localism drive.
A Lords inquiry has backed calls for the Audit Commission’s in-house audit division to become a stand-alone entity, saying this would stop further ‘oligopoly’ by the Big Four accountancy firms.
VIDEO INTERVIEW: The chief executive of Ipsos Mori talks to Public Finance about public opinion on spending cuts, the March 2011 Budget, Chancellor George Osborne and his opposite number Ed Balls. He...
