The government should give councils with clear rules on their role in the Big Society to avoid the project being lost amid cuts, an influential report has found today
Councils should encourage volunteers to be on standby to help clear roads blocked by snow as part of attempts to boost the UK’s resilience to winter weather, MPs have said.
Adult social care laws in England and Wales should be ‘radically overhauled’ in preparation for a more coherent system, according to the Law Commission.
Ambitions to outsource local authority services to the voluntary or private sectors could take as long as a decade to achieve, Public Finance has been told.
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Andy Sawford, chief executive of the Local Government Information Unit, gives an analysis of the May 2011 local elections. He tells Public Finance what the results mean for council...
Faced with the need to save money, public bodies are rushing to sell off their buildings. But there is another way – looking at public sector assets as a whole and working out how to make better use...
Council budgets throughout England might be reopened following a change of political control at many local authorities after the elections, a think-tank has said
Whitehall could save £1.5bn a year by slashing ‘unnecessary and inappropriate’ statutory duties on councils, according to the Local Government Association.
The steep rise in student tuition fees will have a negative impact on the economic activity of UK university towns and cities, according to a report published today
More than 20 local authorities are taking legal action against the government, claiming it has cut too much from their funding for services transferred to academy schools.
Dead bodies could start piling up, strip clubs could be set up on any street corner and vulnerable children could be left without care if the government goes ahead with proposals to cut a series of...
Talk of shared services is nothing new, but now it is increasingly turning into action as public bodies seek to find savings without harming services. While a few pioneers are making headlines,...
The local government grants system will need to be reformed if councils are given back control of local business rates, the Local Government Association says
The Scottish election campaign enters its final days with party leaders refusing to be drawn on claims that 25,000 public sector workers could lose their jobs and others suffer real-terms pay cuts of...
