Cambridgeshire County Council is warning of a 10% hike in its council tax if the government forces it to fully passport funding to schools, despite meeting ministers' minimum spending targets.
The government is planning a crackdown against 31 councils on a secret Whitehall hit list identifying those likely to set inflation-busting council tax increases, as the issue dominated the political...
Local government leaders are to urge ministers to review the entire regulatory framework for councils, while broadly endorsing the Audit Commission's planned reforms to the Comprehensive Performance...
The government put the final seal on the long-running fire dispute this week with the publication of the Fire and Rescue Services Bill, the first major legislation to reform the service in 50 years.
Upside-down handshakes and strange thumb signals will no longer be secret signs in town halls with new guidance compelling councillors to register their membership of the Freemasons.
Sir Michael Bichard, the former civil servant charged with leading the inquiry established in the wake of Ian Huntley's conviction, has promised to be fast, thorough and tough.
MPs have criticised the Inland Revenue for failing to clamp down on tax evasion, following reports that the Treasury loses £3bn a year because of fraud.
Welsh Assembly ministers must take immediate action to stimulate housing demand in the Heads of Valleys region because the issue is hindering regeneration initiatives, experts have warned.
A major increase in revenue and capital expenditure has been announced by acting Northern Ireland finance minister Ian Pearson, who has published his revised Budget.
The National Housing Federation has delivered a 'hands off' warning to the Audit Commission over its increasingly broad inspections of housing associations.
The BBC's regulator, its own board of governors, should be fully independent of the corporation and granted wider powers to control the public body, a leading think-tank has claimed.
Negotiations over local government's long-running London weighting quarrel turned sour this week after the capital's council leaders walked out of the latest meeting and suspended the body set up to...
A council's tenants have delivered a major blow to the government's housing strategy after rejecting proposals for an arm's-length management organisation on January 9.
The Department for Transport has emphatically dismissed claims that it scrapped a Strategic Rail Authority report highlighting chronic underinvestment in the rail infrastructure.
Local government employers want an end to the traditional annual pay talks in favour of multi-year deals, with both English and Scottish councils looking for two-and three-year packages.
Plans to further centralise control of Britain's rail network could bring an end to the 'messianic individual' approach to regulation, which hinders effective co-ordination across the sector, a...
The prison and probation services are to be merged in a shake-up of correctional services in England and Wales, which ministers promise will curb inmate numbers and deliver better value for money.
Regeneration minister Jeff Rooker is to take control of planning in the Milton Keynes area as the government proposes to double the size of the town as part of its communities plan.
Government auditors have praised the Department for Transport for its role in the refinancing of the troubled National Air Traffic Services' public-private partnership.
Eleven new English NHS walk-in centres are to be set up over the next two years as part of the government's drive to extend patient choice and widen access to health services.
