NHS providers in England ended 2015-16 with a £2.45bn deficit, the second successive year it has been plunged into the red, raising concerns that the Department of Health’s spending limit...
The European Commission has deferred its decision on disciplinary action regarding Spain and Portugal’s stubborn “excessive” deficits until early July.
Nearly two-thirds of NHS trust finance directors and more than half of clinical commissioning groups finance leads think their local quality of patient care has deteriorated over the past year,...
Councils and teachers have attacked the Education for All Bill promised in the Queen’s Speech, which would strip local authorities of almost all their remaining education powers.
John Swinney’s nine-year stewardship of Scotland’s public finances has ended, after first minister Nicola Sturgeon shifted him to the politically sensitive education portfolio in a major...
Radical reforms to the way prisons are managed have been outlined in the Queen’s Speech at the state opening of Parliament today, and a bill to overhaul local government finance will also be included...
Government efforts to spend more money through small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have lost momentum and cannot be reliably measured, the Public Accounts Committee has found.
Employers joining the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) may underestimate the obligations involved, the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has warned.
CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman has been named as a member of the RSA Inclusive Growth Commission that is considering how to use devolution to help create more prosperous communities.
The Single Source Regulations Office has removed £1.27m from the costs engines manufacturer Rolls Royce may charge the Ministry of Defence for Hawk jet engines.
Leaving the European Union’s single market would be a disaster for the UK’s economy and result in £200bn less trade every year, chancellor George Osborne warned today.
Far more children are attending unregistered schools across England than previously thought, chief inspector of schools Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned.
Pensioners aged over 75 are thousands of pounds a year worse off than both their younger ‘baby boomer’ counterparts and working age adults, according to the charity Independent Age.
