Councils are to be allocated an extra £162m in the current financial year to spend on social care, as a result of cost-cutting at the Department of Health.
Tony Redmond, former chair of the Commission for Local Administration in England and local government ombudsman, has been knighted in the latest round of honours
New jobs in the public sector hit a record low last month, at less than half the level recorded in December 2009, latest figures show. But demand for qualified accountants continues to rise.
Ministers robustly defended their decision to frontload cuts to local authority budgets today, claiming the move would kick start organisational reform.
Bureaucracy in the planning system is to be dramatically cut back and replaced with a new set of rules designed to stimulate growth and hand more power to ‘communities’, the government has announced.
Councils have called on the government to do more to reduce the burden of data submissions to Whitehall after ministers issued proposals for a newly pared-down reporting regime.
Local authorities will not have the necessary resources to sustain current social care eligibility levels, the Commons health select committee has warned
Local government minister Bob Neill has told Public Finance that today’s Decentralisation and Localism Bill will usher in a new ‘can-do’ era for councils.
Up to 73,000 local government jobs are currently at risk in England, while libraries and leisure services are likely to bear the brunt of budget cuts, according to research by CIPFA
The London Borough of Lambeth wants to become the first 'co-operative council', using mutuals to pass power to the people. Finance and resources director Mike Suarez tells PF what this means and how...
Three more Local Enterprise Partnerships have been approved. Partnerships for New Anglia (covering Norfolk and Suffolk), the Black Country and Worcestershire were given the green light by Business...
