Local bodies must put more emphasis on keeping records of their spend on preventing ill health, CIPFA’s chief executive Rob Whiteman told a health conference today.
Young people are not being helped to reintegrate into society after being released from young offender institutions, a report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and HM Inspectorate of Probation has found.
Boards aimed at improving local wellbeing of citizens must start “thinking and acting differently” to achieve their potential, the Welsh Auditor General has said.
Revoking Brexit would be the best outcome for the UK economy while a no-deal scenario would double government borrowing, a major economic study has found.
The government must increase the levels of housing benefit given to people in the private rented sector as families are being priced out of homes, according to a trade association.
The government is facing calls to halt its ‘loan charge’ policy introduced to reclaim about £3.2bn of avoided tax, after it was linked to seven suicides.
Councils should be doing more to cut carbon emissions and tackle climate change, according to a campaign group, as it released research on local authorities’ green credentials.
Brexit has been named as the reason for the UK facing a possible recession and the expected delay of the government’s annual statement on its fiscal plans.
Scottish ministers have asked the Treasury to review the Scottish Government’s borrowing limits “as a matter of urgency” in the light of growing concerns over the volatility of tax receipts north of...
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Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge on Westminster’s decision to raise the state pension age for women from 60 to 65, which could have cost the government £215bn.
Groups have called for the housing crisis to be fixed after official figures revealed two homeless people died in England and Wales each day last year.
