Local government

  • Public Finance
    27 Apr 06
    The current system for funding long-term care is 'inequitable, incoherent and financially unstable', a three-year research project by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has concluded.
  • Public Finance
    27 Apr 06
    More low-cost homes must be built in rural areas to avoid young people being priced out of local housing, says a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
  • Public Finance
    27 Apr 06
    CIPFA has urged the UK's Department for International Development to promote a new international reporting standard to minimise the multiple reporting burdens placed on poor countries.
  • Public Finance
    27 Apr 06
    The Scottish Executive is considering a wide range of transport measures to cut journey times and reduce traffic congestion.
  • Public Finance
    27 Apr 06
    The structure of local government, as well as how it is run and financed are all under scrutiny. This offers the perfect opportunity to explore lasting reforms after years of tinkering, argue Frank...
  • Public Finance
    27 Apr 06
    As the axe falls on thousands of frontline NHS posts, the government faces a huge row over the impact on clinical care. Seamus Ward visits a health trust about to shed 1,200 posts and hears both...
  • Public Finance
    27 Apr 06
    Whatever government reform you look at, you'll find joint working is part of it. But councils planning to join up to share services need to ensure that by doing so they don't trigger EU procurement...
  • Public Finance
    20 Apr 06
    More than 40 local authorities that expect to meet the decent homes target without a change in management have set up a new body to lobby ministers.
  • Public Finance
    20 Apr 06
    The government has given the NHS and social care services five years to stamp out a pervasive negative culture of attitudes to older people which often results in poor quality care and neglect. But...
  • Public Finance
    20 Apr 06
    It is almost a year since the Audit Commission warned that the housing finance system is, if not cracking up, certainly creaking.
  • Public Finance
    20 Apr 06
    The environment dominated the local elections campaign this week as the political parties vied to demonstrate their green credentials in the run-up to polling day on May 4.
  • Public Finance
    20 Apr 06
    School leaders have described revised government guidance on local authority intervention in poorly performing schools as 'extremely worrying'.
  • Public Finance
    20 Apr 06
    An influential parliamentary committee has recommended a radical shake-up in the method of tackling deprivation in Scotland.
  • Public Finance
    20 Apr 06
    Owners of thatched cottages have been warned to protect their properties against fire as the dry weather conditions increase the risk.
  • Public Finance
    20 Apr 06
    A tool for local economic regeneration or an antisocial licence to print money? As competition hots up in the bidding war for the UK's first 'super-casino', Peter Hetherington talks to the councils...
  • Public Finance
    20 Apr 06
    The failure of List 99 to stop paedophiles working with children shocked parents and teachers and nearly did for the career of Education Secretary Ruth Kelly. Phil Revell asks whether the...
  • Public Finance
    20 Apr 06
    Ministers, local government employers and trade unions are set to launch a ground-breaking project with the aim of involving public sector staff in the government's reform programme.
  • Public Finance
    13 Apr 06
    More than 1,700 low-paid female employees have won equal pay claims against Cumbria County Council. Estimates of the final payout range between £30m to £100m - substantially more than the £8m the...
  • Public Finance
    13 Apr 06
    Finance Minister Tom McCabe has raised doubts about the Scottish Executive's plans for public sector reform by suggesting that its long-awaited 'think-piece' document might be further delayed.
  • Public Finance
    13 Apr 06
    Civil service trade unions this week accused the Department for Work and Pensions of withdrawing a commitment to avoid compulsory redundancies in implementing the government's £40bn efficiency...
  • Public Finance
    13 Apr 06
    Despite moves from the European Commission to water down its controversial services directive, concerns remain that it will still lead to the market liberalisation of some public services including...
  • Public Finance
    13 Apr 06
    The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has said it will act on businesses' criticisms of the new local authority licensing regime but only when the police and residents have had their say.
  • Public Finance
    13 Apr 06
    The next Conservative government will not run public services 'from a desk in Whitehall' and will give frontline organisations the freedom to make decisions in response to local circumstances, Oliver...
  • Public Finance
    13 Apr 06
    Two deficit-ridden primary care trusts in Wiltshire have withdrawn up to £3m of social care funding from the local authority with just 14 hours' notice.
  • Public Finance
    13 Apr 06
    Unions this week suspended plans for strikes in the lead-up to the local elections, following what they called a 'very positive move forward' in the dispute over the local government pension scheme.

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