Opponents of the government's spending cuts must marshal an intellectual case for an alternative, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress said today
Stretched councils are finding it increasingly difficult to pay for staff to gain new qualifications in work time, Public Finance has learned. This is prompting fears that workforces will lack '...
Treasury guidance that protects the pensions of employees outsourced from the public sector to the voluntary sector must be changed, third sector leaders have said
So farewell then Audit Commission and hello amateur bean counters. David Walker takes a look at the coalition's plans for 'super audit' - and wonders if they're outside most people's comfort zone
Scottish local authorities should be given a discretionary power to raise supplementary taxes, according to proposals for local taxation reform drawn up by leading revenue and valuation officials
The proposed General Power of Competence for councils will not on its own be enough to enable them to find innovative ways of saving money, a government advisor has told Public Finance
Concern is mounting that the Treasury is preparing for a series of 'quick win' reforms to the Local Government Pension Scheme, expected to come into effect as soon as April next year
Is the abolition of the Audit Commission a welcome end to top-down, tick-box regulation or a false economy that will hold back scrutiny and research? Jaimie Kaffash reports
The gender gap is closing in the public sector far quicker than in the private sector but the government's spending cuts could slow this down, according to the author of a report out today
Councils should divert some of the funds they use for pension fund deficits into supporting vulnerable frontline services, the New Local Government Network has said today
Proposed changes to the distribution of the formula grant for local government would leave the capital £100m out of pocket, London Councils is claiming
Eighty-five per cent of the claims put in by councils for housing and council tax benefits subsidy were inaccurate, according to the local government spending watchdog
Ministers plan to slash thousands of jobs in government departments this year. But first they want to rush through cuts in civil service redundancy terms - and the unions are lining up to stop them....
The blanket public sector pay freeze will have a more punitive effect on civil servants than other workers and could lead to more equal pay claims, Public Finance has been told
