Is April the cruellest month? By the time Alistair Darling finished his 2009 Budget speech, it was looking a lot nastier than November. The litany of figures the chancellor recited revealed just how...
Two councils could bypass the Private Finance Initiative to build a multimillion-pound waste treatment facility after PFI schemes elsewhere have been bogged down by financing problems
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has acknowledged the critical shortage of primary school places, saying officials are looking at ways of remedying the situation
Local government mandarin Neil Kinghan is to take over at the top of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission following the departure of chief executive Nicola Brewer
Councils in Wales are charging widely different amounts for home care services and using different financial assessments to decide who pays, a report has found
Police force leaders have attacked local government minister John Healey’s decision to cap the council tax precepts of Surrey and Derbyshire police authorities
Councils would be better able to protect their communities from the recession if they were allowed to set three-year budgets, a New Local Government Network report has argued
The finance leader of Scotland’s biggest council has called for a pay freeze across the public sector to meet tightening spending targets and avoid widespread job cuts
Local authorities could recover a substantial amount of the almost £1bn they invested in Iceland’s failed banks, CIPFA’s Local Authority Accounting Panel has revealed
A city council believes it can save millions of pounds for local authorities by developing what it sees as a ground-breaking approach to shared council purchases
Council leaders and the Scottish Government have been accused of denying the public and MSPs vital information on the progress of a policy concordat by holding talks in secret
Adrian Pulham, CIPFA’s education and training director, has urged managers across the public services to nominate high-potential finance staff for the Future Leaders competition
Proposals to set up a councils’ mutual fund that could be used to invest in capital projects are set to be presented at the Local Government Association conference in June
Councillors at the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham have agreed to accept a recommendation from an independent remuneration panel for a freeze in their allowances
A significant proportion of local authority pension scheme investments do not meet ‘socially responsible’ risk management standards, an audit has revealed
