The Bank of England has held interest rates at 4%, but the five-to-four split in Monetary Policy Committee votes suggested this might not continue for much longer.
Labour’s manifesto promise to not raise the three ‘main’ taxes is at risk of being broken in the Budget, with the chancellor warning of poor economic performance and “hard choices” ahead.
A draft proposal for a single new unitary council covering Worcestershire would cost £59m to implement, cut the number of councillors in half and deliver a “comparatively rapid return” within three...
Councils are struggling to meet their legal duty to provide home-to-school transport in the face of mounting pressures which have seen budgets overspent by over £400m.
Funding for bus services has been “short-term, fragmented and poorly targeted”, hindering investment in the sector, according to a cross-party group of MPs.
Analysis has set out for the first time how preventative spending can be quantified, and researchers at CIPFA have urged public bodies to prioritise prevention in their financial planning.
Changes to the land value capture regime could be needed to fund sufficient infrastructure and affordable homes in the government’s planned ‘New Towns’, a report from the Housing, Communities and...
Debt-ridden Woking Borough Council is to receive an initial bailout of £500m as the government gave the go-ahead to proposals to create two new unitary authorities in Surrey.
The gap between the support for low-income private tenants and the real rates of average rents is set to reach record levels next year, according to a report from the Resolution Foundation.
Poor communication over audit fees has been identified as the main complaint of local authorities undergoing audit, despite an overall increase in satisfaction.
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has heralded the latest education white paper as a chance to open up higher education to more people from varied backgrounds as well as put University financing...
Westminster City Council has called for reform of the business rates regime to stop unscrupulous landlords from using allegedly bogus snail farms to avoid paying what they owe.
Local government reorganisation risks exacerbating the “immense” financial strain under which councils are already operating, according to the chair of an influential parliamentary committee.
The first global accounting standard for non-profit organisations has been launched in a bid to drive up the consistency, comparability and credibility of financial reporting in the sector.
The government faces calls to scrap plans to abolish lower minimum wage rates for young workers as the number of 16-24 year olds not in education, employment or training approaches one million.
Mounting pressure on special needs and disabilities support is threatening education services’ financial resilience, the National Audit Office has warned.
