A pledge by UK party leaders to maintain the Barnett Formula for funding public services in Scotland if there is a no vote in Thursday’s independence referendum will increase demands for English...
Devolved administrations in the nations and regions of the UK are increasingly getting the blame when public services go wrong, but Whitehall still carries the can where division of power is murky, a...
Iain Duncan Smith will today defend the government’s welfare reforms by insisting that measures including the introduction of a £26,000 benefit cap are ensuring a ‘social recovery’ in the UK...
Welsh finance minister Jane Hutt has criticised Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget, saying it was full of missed opportunities and would do nothing for economic growth in Wales.
Local communities in England lose £4.1bn each year to the UK’s devolved nations through the ‘outdated’ Barnett Formula for distributing public spending, the Local Government Association has claimed...
Northern Ireland will be hit harder by the government’s welfare reforms than any other part of the UK, with cuts set to take around £750m out the economy, charities have warned.
Public services in Northern Ireland are not subject to the burning platform of fiscal meltdown currently being experienced by English local government. But leaders in the province are taking this as...
Chief executive appointments to Northern Ireland’s 11 new councils will be made through open competition, environment minister Alex Attwood has announced. The minister said this would be the fairest...
Special measures have been introduced at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust after an outbreak of psuedomonas killed three premature babies at the city’s Royal Maternity Hospital
An extra £72m is to be spent on schools and children’s services in Northern Ireland over the next three years after the province’s education budget was revised.
Northern Ireland Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Michelle O’Neill has launched a grant to ensure people living in remote areas have access to safe and affordable drinking water
Voluntary and community groups in Northern Ireland have been urged to apply for a share of a £700,000 funding pot aimed at tackling rural poverty and social isolation.
Sinn Féin councillor Seán McPeake was appointed president of the Northern Ireland Local Government Association for the 2012/13 term following its September 28 AGM
