Social housing landlords will be required to set out how they will protect vulnerable residents in the forthcoming shake-up of social housing, which will end tenancies for life and introduce market-...
Audit fees for local government, health and community safety bodies will be cut by up to 20% in the 2011/12 financial year, the Audit Commission confirmed today.
Council finance departments are facing a 'perfect storm' of unprecedented cuts in income, rising demand for services and soaring redundancies. To help analyse the long-range forecast and prepare for...
The government is committed both to boosting overseas aid and ensuring the money is spent well. And that's where the new Independent Commission for Aid Impact comes in. Lucy Phillips reports
Government plans to allow councils to keep more of their business rates and eventually become independent of central government funding have come under major fire – from those that stand to benefit...
Councils and primary care trusts could save money and keep more people independent for longer if they combined health and social care records, a leading health think-tank said today.
Major doubts have been cast on the government's plans for a mass mutualisation of public services, with scepticism over both staff appetite for and the viability of the model
The future of local government audit has been thrown into disarray after it emerged that the Audit Commission is likely to remain open well beyond its planned abolition in 2012.
Ministers are considering ‘strengthening’ the inspection regime for local authority adoption services in an attempt to reverse a recent decline in family placements.
The gap between rich and poor is narrower in the North than in the rest of the UK but ‘potentially damaging’ pay inequality is on the rise, according to a report published today.
Planned reforms to housing finance put new council homebuilding at risk by leaving too much power in the hands of Whitehall, the Local Government Association has warned.
Plans to impose a 10% Housing Benefit cut on anyone unemployed for more than a year have been dropped from the government’s Welfare Reform Bill, published today.
Council leaders have criticised the Home Office for delaying an announcement on further cuts to Community Safety Partnerships until after most local authority budgets have been set.
Prime Minister David Cameron has defended his government’s controversial Big Society programme today, saying it was his ‘absolute passion’ and calling for ‘social recovery’ in Britain.
