Will the Fair Funding Review 2.0 finally ease pressure on finances? Or will English local authorities still be expected to adapt service delivery in line with reduced funding?
Each Local Authority Accounting Code consultation in the past few years has surfaced new issues with IFRS 17, but none have so far challenged the prevailing view that the Code should retain its...
Debt-ridden Woking Borough Council is to receive an initial bailout of £500m as the government gave the go-ahead to proposals to create two new unitary authorities in Surrey.
Poor communication over audit fees has been identified as the main complaint of local authorities undergoing audit, despite an overall increase in satisfaction.
Westminster City Council has called for reform of the business rates regime to stop unscrupulous landlords from using allegedly bogus snail farms to avoid paying what they owe.
Local government reorganisation risks exacerbating the “immense” financial strain under which councils are already operating, according to the chair of an influential parliamentary committee.
Norse Group chief executive Justin Galliford believes that the public interest test will lead to local authorities exploring alternative delivery models.
Fiscal pressures are holding councils back from using their huge annual procurement spend on achieving their broader strategic goals for society and the environment, according to a think-tank.
Communities are not receiving sufficient benefits from housing developers’ Section 106 contributions, with a large but unclear number of affordable homes sitting empty, MPs have found.
County councils have warned that thousands of vulnerable people could face a triple whammy of diminished services once the authorities are split into multiple smaller unitaries.
Norse Group chief executive Justin Galliford believes that partnership working beats outsourcing at a time of difficulty for integrated community equipment services.
The share of children receiving support for special educational needs and disabilities has doubled, driving a “dramatic and ongoing” increase in spending and leading to councils amassing an...
Waste services are at risk of being controlled by the packaging industry, with funding docked from councils that fail to comply with the industry’s own preferred collection methods, the government...
Councils are calling for a major update in the way they are reimbursed for the cost of temporary accommodation after new figures showed the bill had soared by a quarter in the last year.
Soaring social care demand, unsustainable borrowing and weak governance of commercial ventures are the main pressures that have forced councils to seek government bailouts, according to research by...
