The number of people employed in local government has fallen sharply over the past two years, with more than 15,000 jobs lost, according to the Local Government Group.
By loading responsibility for the bulk of spending cuts on to councils, the government has managed to spread the consequences far and wide. The result, says Tony Travers, is that everyone is fighting...
The bitter war of words between local government and Scottish Parliament leaders about public finance reform has escalated sharply over plans to merge social care with health provision
Councils across England and Wales have been ‘inundated’ with applications for road closures to hold royal wedding street parties, according to the Local Government Association.
Councils are being passed a repair bill totalling £70m every year due to utility companies failing to fix roads after they have been dug up, a report has found.
It’s all in the timing. One year after the coalition government was formed, the turn of the electoral cycle means that on May 5 it faces its largest test short of a general election.
Scotland’s trade unions have challenged council leaders to stand shoulder to shoulder with them in mounting concerted direct action against spending cuts.
The government today appointed the financial consulting firm FTI to advise on disbanding the Audit Commission and transferring its audit practice out of the public sector.
The head of Scotland's local authorities today unleashed a scathing attack on political party leaders, accusing them of treating council services and jobs as ammunition for the Holyrood election...
First Minister Alex Salmond has launched the Scottish National Party election manifesto with a promise to freeze the council tax for the full five years of the next Holyrood term if his party is...
England's richest areas pay the highest council tax per head, and poorer ones receive the most grant, the government has said in an effort to prove the system is fair
Fire and rescue services have been distracted from their work by ‘the previous government’s management from the centre’, fire minister Bob Neill has said in his response to a review of the service.
Social workers have paid too little attention to children's views and to adults with potentially useful information on abuses, an Ofsted report on serious case reviews has found
