Planning for Britain’s exit from the European Union could cost the government £65m a year and involve hiring 500 new civil servants, the Institute for Government has said.
Jeremy Corbyn has pledged that a Labour government would lift the housing borrowing cap on councils as part of what he called “municipal socialism for the 21st century”.
Patients are too often being discharged from hospital when it is not safe for them to leave due to poor levels of health and social care integration, according to MPs.
Former Labour minister John Healey has said that devolution under the last Labour government was “hamstrung” by efforts to develop proposals that could apply across the whole country.
Labour has launched a childcare taskforce that will consider new policy proposals to provide affordable, high-quality childcare fit for the 21st century in order to help parents get into work.
Diane Abbott has accused Jeremy Hunt of treating junior doctors as part of “the enemy within” in the long-running dispute over a new contract and called on the health secretary to get...
Housing benefit overpayments are more likely to be identified when residents receive a separate communication written in clear language, a study conducted by five English councils and Capita suggests.
A Labour government would guarantee regional development scheme spending levels in line with European structural fund allocations over the next decade, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has...
Labour’s shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rebecca Long Bailey has called for pension scheme members across local government to be given a greater say in where investments are made.
Labour would scrap Work Capability Assessments and the sanctions system for jobseekers as part what shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams called a plan to change the culture of the UK’s...
Unison trade union leader Dave Prentis has today urged the Labour Party to stop “obsessing about rule changes and internal rows” and become focused on being electable so the party can “protect public...
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has set out a plan for a network of regional development banks that would move major investment decisions out of Whitehall and into regions and localities.
Black and minority ethnic people remain significantly underrepresented in the top 5,000 leadership roles across the public and voluntary sectors, a survey has found.
Local councils could be landed with a bill of up to £320m if all schools are converted into academies, according to Local Government Association figures.
Labour’s shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald has accused the government of clinging to a failed privatisation model for running the rail network and pledged to take services into public...
Jeremy Corbyn is to launch a national campaign against the government’s plans to expand the use of grammar schools after he was re-elected as Labour’s leader at the party’s conference on Saturday.
Treasury minister Lord Jim O’Neill, who led the department’s work on devolution deals including the Northern Powerhouse, has resigned, becoming the first person to quit Theresa May’s government.
New spending limits for regional health systems have been proposed in a two-year blueprint for the NHS, which expands the use of Sustainability and Transformation Plans to drive reforms across the...
Cities in the UK are lagging behind their European counterparts in terms of productivity, skills and innovation, which will harm the country’s competitiveness in a post-Brexit world, a report has...
Social work funding in Scotland’s councils has reached a tipping point and services can no longer be sustained under existing approaches, according to a hard-hitting report today from the local...
A major review of government’s devolution and economic policy has proposed revisions to the prudential borrowing code for local authorities, as part of increased devolved powers intended to lead to...
The OECD has slightly revised up its growth forecast for the UK in 2016 despite what it said was the “extremely high” uncertainty of the impact of the vote to leave the European Union.
