The Scottish Government faces a “huge and highly complex” challenge as it prepares to take on new financial and social security powers, auditors have warned.
Three councils face central government intervention after failures to produce a local plan, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government has said.
The UK’s aid spending is “chaotic”, Labour’s shadow international development secretary has said, setting out her own ‘feminist’ plan for global development.
Children in the North of England face being “left behind” because they are more likely to come from a poor community and attend a weak school, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said...
Management of Scotland’s public finances is to be transformed with a far greater focus on outcomes, delegates at the CIPFA Scotland annual conference have heard.
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 132,000 between September and December last year because of housing association reclassification, official figures have shown.
Scotland faces long-term reductions in regeneration funding after Brexit and could be asked to pay its share of the UK’s divorce bill, delegates at the CIPFA Scotland conference have heard.
The UK could be “punished” by the European Union if it tries to lower corporate tax to attract business after leaving the bloc, tax avoidance campaigner Dame Margaret Hodge has told PF...
Revenue from council tax and business rates in England will not keep pace with a growing social care need – and the funding gap is likely to significantly increase, the Institute for Fiscal Studies...
Mayors have expressed their frustration at a lack of dialogue between central and local government in Brexit negotiations, at a select committee hearing.
Government investment in new-build homes in England has plummeted while spending on housing benefit has soared, according to the Chartered Institute of Housing.
