Doctors and other health professionals will be given control of almost £65bn of English NHS spending from next year if the government’s controversial reforms go ahead, according to Department for...
The £250m fund to help councils maintain or return to weekly waste collections is now open for business, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has announced.
The government has finalised the amount that councils will have to pay to take control of council house rents in their area, with payments lower than originally planned.
Whole Place is the new Total Place, as community budgeting helps both town halls and Whitehall free up their fiscal thinking. So are the chances of joined-up spending better or worse in an era of...
The Welsh auditor general has criticised a climate of informality and failure to effectively challenge decision-making at Pembrokeshire County Council.
The good news is that the government is scrapping the much-hated Housing Revenue Account from April. The less good news is that the Treasury, not councils, could still end up in the driving seat
As head of the Government Finance Profession, Richard Douglas is overseeing big changes to Whitehall’s financial management. He tells PF how he combines that with his day job at the Department of...
Eric Pickles has warned local government finance officers that they risk getting involved in politics if they recommend a council tax rise in their areas.
Liverpool council is poised to take greater control of the government’s flagship back-to-work scheme in the city under moves to create a directly elected mayor.
The chief executive of one of the councils chosen to run a whole-place Community Budget pilot has warned that the scheme involving his local authority will not go ahead unless a ‘sustainable’ plan...
Scottish local government leaders have accepted that the country’s eight regional police forces will be merged into a single national service, but say councils must be fully involved for the change...
