Complaints about the impact of cuts on public services should be made to local councils, Chancellor George Osborne has told the Treasury select committee.
Costs of local authority audit could rise if government plans to abolish the Audit Commission go ahead unchanged, CIPFA chief executive Steve Freer has told MPs
The public sector's target culture has made it unresponsive to areas plagued by crime and antisocial behaviour, the government's safer communities champion has said
Ministers are drawing up legislation to allow councils to recover all their costs from issuing and monitoring alcohol and late-night entertainment licences.
Labour says the chancellor's 'Budget for growth' won't work, and he needs a Plan B. But where are the Opposition's own alternatives for the economy and public services? Liam Byrne talks exclusively...
Concern that there will be a mass opt-out from the Local Government Pension Scheme has been reignited after the chancellor said in his Budget that he would go ahead with increasing public sector...
Local Enterprise Partnerships are to be tested to the limit as hard-pressed councils strive to be part of the 21 new 'enterprise zones' announced in the Budget
Audit Commission staff are in favour of establishing an employee-owned mutual, but slow and unclear movement by the government risks derailing the plans, MPs were told last night.
Two major development projects in Scotland are to be funded using Tax Increment Financing, which allows councils to borrow against future gains in business rate income
A London council has called for enterprise zones to be extended beyond the Midlands and North of England ahead of this week’s Budget, in which ten new zones are due to be announced.
The Local Government Association has hit back at criticism of senior council salaries, after a list published today revealed a record 2,295 town hall staff were paid more than £100,000 in 2009/10.
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 132,000 over the whole of last year, cutting the workforce to just under 6.2 million, according to the Office for National Statistics.
