The Audit Commission has announced that it will provide a rebate totalling £8m to local authorities as part of preparations for its closure next March.
Most local authorities have increased the rationing of social care for the over-65s in response to government cuts, leading to significant drops in the number of people receiving home-delivered meals...
The funding system for local government could cease to work effectively within a decade due to constraints placed on councils, the chief executive of CIPFA has told MPs
A £130m City Deal signed between the government, Leicester and Leicestershire councils will create 1,400 new jobs and 4,000 apprenticeships to tackle youth unemployment in the region, Deputy Prime...
The government agency announced by George Osborne to lead the creation of a garden city at Ebbsfleet in Kent must be given a ‘blank sheet of paper’ free from council planning agreements, the chair of...
Plans to create a municipal bond agency could save councils nearly £1.5bn in lower borrowing costs, according to the latest analysis by the Local Government Association
CIPFA is to take over the Audit Commission’s counter-fraud work when the watchdog is wound up next year and establish a national centre of excellence in counter-fraud, it has been announced today
Trade unions are to consult council staff on industrial action after the Local Government Association offered most employees a below-inflation 1% pay increase from next month.
The number of people employed in the public sector fell by 159,000 to 5.5 million in the last three months of 2013 following the reclassification of the Royal Mail after privatisation, the Office for...
One-third of all young people will either be out of work or trapped in underemployment by 2018 based on current trends, the Local Government Association has warned.
There should be a ‘presumption of openness’ on the publication of public data and government needs to devise ways to maximise its economic potential, MPs have said.
Many of the school inspectors used by education watchdog Ofsted lack the skills and experience to do the job effectively now the government has given greater independence to schools, a think-tank has...
Local authorities lose more than £200m as a result of council tax reductions given to single people in large homes, and town halls should be given the freedom to scrap the discount, the Local...
City Deals that will provide nearly £200m of public funds to boost the growth prospects of Sunderland and Stoke-on-Trent have been signed by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
Any additional cuts to local government funding announced in next week’s Budget would compromise the ability of local government to boost economic growth, counties have warned
Councils need to invest more in their procurement skills to ensure they get best value from the £45bn spent on good and services across local government every year, a committee of MPs has said.
The government and councils do not know if the limits of the adult social care system to provide quality care are being reached as demand rises and funding is squeezed, auditors have warned.
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has pledged that MPs will ‘have a real go’ at maintaining scrutiny of council services following the abolition of the Audit Commission
The government’s ‘insanely ambitious’ timescale to wind up the Audit Commission will spread many of its functions across Whitehall, reducing their effectiveness, an analysis has found.
Local council tax support schemes introduced following the government’s welfare reforms have reduced work incentives in some part of the country, the Public Accounts Committee has found.
