The Wales Audit Office has urged local authorities to take stock of their of homelessness services as real terms spending drops 26.3% over seven years - despite a cash boost from the Welsh Government.
Wales’ economy shows little sign of improving this year and some indicators are heading into reverse, including child poverty, a think-tank has warned.
Deputy prime minister Damian Green is facing complaints at today’s British-Irish Council meeting from the devolved governments that they have been sidelined by British ministers in the...
Mark Drakeford, Welsh cabinet secretary for finance and local government, talks exclusively to PF about taxes, budget setting and why austerity is a failed policy.
Welsh local authorities will see their core funding cut by 0.5% next year, following the announcement of a settlement local government secretary Mark Drakeford described as “challenging but...
Welsh finance secretary Mark Drakeford today issued his draft budget for next year, pledging greater certainty for public services amid ongoing austerity.
The first ministers of Wales and Scotland have written to the government urging it to work with them to ensure powers are devolved to them post-Brexit.
Theresa May’s £1bn deal with the Democratic Unionist Party has unleashed cross-party uproar in Scotland, after Downing Street made clear that there would be no consequential boost to the...
Warnings over the financial viability of plans to merge Welsh councils are being ignored as costs of implementation remains unclear, CIPFA has claimed.
The Welsh finance secretary has called on the UK government to replace EU funding as Cardiff announced it had reached a target to draw down billions of European cash.
