The government must act quickly to tackle the temporary accommodation crisis, because an increasing number of families are being placed in housing “unfit for human habitation”, the cross-party...
Targeted measures to encourage housing associations and councils to ramp up construction of new homes should be a cornerstone of a plan to get housebuilding going again.
Norse chief executive Justin Galliford explores the growing interest in the LATCo model, and why he believes it works so well – particularly the benefits of developing a commercial culture.
Local authorities across England are to receive an extra £41 million to cover the cost of new enforcement powers through the Renters’ Rights Act due to come into force next month.
English councils are facing rising external debt and a fall in usable reserves following a 4.1% real-terms increase in spending on social care by local authorities in the past year, analysis has...
More local powers for contactless travel underpin the government’s national transport strategy, which is calling for tap-and-go travel to be rolled out across England to make travel options...
The Local Government Pension Scheme has performed well through a period of exceptional economic uncertainty but a rise in scheme assets is not in itself a meaningful measure of funding strength,...
A new statutory duty for councils to prepare cultural strategies every five years could soon be coming, after the government said it will accept every recommendation made by the Hodge Review into...
The first wave of local government reorganisation decisions has divided opinion, after many of the new councils fell below the government’s previously stated 500,000 population threshold criteria.
Council tax across England and Wales is expected to increase by an average of 4.9% in the coming year, which while above inflation will not mean revenue keeps up with spending pressure, CIPFA...
Government plans for the NHS and local authorities to transform the way they work together will fail without wider shifts, a public sector network has warned.
Regional leaders will have more control over how national tax money is spent, in a move to permanently transfer “power and resources” to a local level set out by the chancellor.
Councils have expressed concerns about growing cyber risks resulting from local government reorganisation as mergers increase the number of partners involved in managing data and securing...
Integrating working-age council tax support and universal credit would reduce complexity for claimants and ease the administrative burdens on councils, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has argued, as...
It’s time to accept that when it comes to local government accounts simplification, we can’t have our cake and eat it, writes Mark Green, vice-chair of the CIPFA Better Reporting Group.
Government subsidies have failed to cover the rising cost of temporary accommodation to councils across England since 2017-18 to the tune of £1.5bn, analysis by the Local Government Association has...
The Financial Resilience Index shone a light on the deepening issues facing English local government. It contained major findings on debt, reserves and spending pressures.
The £1.5bn of exceptional financial support announced for a record 35 councils in the coming financial year has prompted concerns over the sector’s capacity to cope with demand.
