The many colleagues who knew Sue Beauchamp will be very sad to hear of her untimely death. The institute's thoughts are with her husband, family and friends.
Local government minister Kris Hopkins has today awarded grants to 73 public service integration schemes that are expected to lead to more than £900m in efficiencies across the public sector.
Plans to devolve a host of fiscal powers to the Scottish Parliament, including full retention of income tax, make it more important than ever to replace the Barnett formula used to determine levels...
Holyrood is set to retain all income tax raised in Scotland under cross-party plans for further devolution of fiscal powers to Edinburgh following the no vote in September’s independence...
Auditors say the Department for Education is not able to hold local authorities to account for their spending on children in care because central government does not have indicators to measure the...
Scotland’s Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) remain inconsistent in their leadership, collaboration and scrutiny, unclear in their ambitions and uneven in their supervision, according to Audit...
Councils should be able to borrow from the Public Works Loan Board to fund revenue spending on projects to integrate local services, an independent expert panel has recommended.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced the creation of a commission to examine possible replacements for the council tax as she set out her first programme for government in the post.
The Autumn Statement should provide the NHS with an additional £2bn in funding in order to head off a financial crisis, the King’s Fund has said today.
Auditors today said they are not yet able to judge if the government’s flagship Universal Credit reform to the welfare system will achieve value for money.
The government’s flagship Universal Credit welfare reform has begun to accept claims from families as part of the phased rollout of the controversial scheme to create a single benefit from six...
A Conservative government is unlikely to meet Prime Minister David Cameron’s pledge to deliver a surplus by 2018/19, the Social Market Foundation warned in its pre-Autumn Statement briefing.
Monitor has urged NHS foundation trusts to improve control of their contract and agency staffing costs after finding that they had spent double what they planned between April and September.
Workers across the NHS have today taken strike action in protest at a government decision to not award a cost-of-living pay increase to all members of staff.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has today warned that number of people in poverty is likely to start increasing due to caps in the uprating of benefits coupled with an increase in wage rates.
Housing and planning minister Brandon Lewis today called on councils to prioritise development of brownfield land so that more homes can be built while protecting the countryside.
The next Labour government would look to raise as much as £100m by selling off state-owned property in London, including restaurants and the QE2 Conference Centre, the party has announced.
Commissioning for children’s services should be transformed to ensure services are joined up and meet long-term needs, an expert report has recommended.
Public sector borrowing between April to October this year rose £3.7bn compared to the same period the previous year, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics.
High Speed 2 rail chief Sir David Higgins has raised the prospect of increased private investment in the UK’s transport system, as part of a 30-year government plan to develop economically vital...
A former Scottish Government cabinet minister has called for a restructuring of Scottish local government and other public bodies in response to plans to devolve significant extra powers to Holyrood.
