Restrictions on the amount of voluntary work unemployed people can do are hampering young people’s efforts to secure jobs, the Local Government Association said today.
Public attitudes stand in the way of the radical service transformations needed to deal with local authority budget cuts, according to the New Local Government Network.
Almost two-thirds of councils do not think that local communities will be able to take over the running of public services, despite the government’s Big Society ambitions.
Birmingham City Council has been given a triple-A credit rating by one of the world’s biggest rating agencies as the authority positions itself to borrow money from financial markets.
Councillors in charge of Edinburgh’s ill-fated trams project were unqualified for the role and out of their depth in dealing with contractors, the city's transport convener has admitted.
Weak economic growth means public sector job cuts should be delayed, if necessary beyond the next general election, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has warned.
Local government staff will have to pay on average an extra 1.5 percentage points of their pay towards their pensions under changes being proposed by the Department for Communities and Local...
Councils will not achieve the substantial savings needed over the next three years through either outsourcing or employee-owned mutuals, a Public Finance round table debate agreed this week.
Local government staff and civil servants will be barred from working full time for trade unions while taking a salary for their job, the government has announced.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has announced that councils are to be given enhanced powers to evict travellers from unauthorised sites following the long-running legal battle at Dale Farm in...
Chancellor George Osborne has announced that the government will give councils £805m to freeze council tax for a second consecutive year, using money saved by cutting waste.
Senior staff salaries, spending over £500 and audits should all be regularly published by councils, according to the final code of practice on data transparency.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will give his personal backing to plans to extend Community Budgets, confronting those Whitehall departments that are ‘digging in’ against the changes, a senior...
Shadow communities and local government minister Caroline Flint has pledging that a future Labour government would stop Housing Benefit going to landlords who house tenants in sub-standard properties.
