The Department for Communities and Local Government must improve efforts to monitor the effect of councils’ funding cuts on the ground, the National Audit Office has said.
Government changes to benefits and tax credits, intended to save nearly £20bn in the current financial year, have produced only £2.5bn in cash savings, an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies...
The next government needs to better coordinate economic development initiatives if it hopes to close the current North-South divide, a committee of MPs and peers has said.
Members of all three local government unions have voted to accept a two-year pay deal from the Local Government Association, resolving a dispute that had seen workers take strike action.
A new national database of apprenticeships and other employer-led courses and training opportunities for over 16s will be launched in England next year, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has revealed.
George Osborne has embarked on a tour of the country to find out what areas could benefit from additional funding for road improvements in next month’s Autumn Statement.
The Treasury has announced that an extra £300m will be made available to the NHS to ensure that the service is well prepared for the pressures of a cold winter amid ‘unprecedented demand’.
The economic potential of England’s counties, towns and small cities is just as important as that of big cities, and they should get devolved powers too, says an independent commission.
Plans to ‘radically’ improve health and social care outcomes and the quality of patient care by 2020 using digital technology has been published by NHS England.
A quirk in the Barnett Formula for determining the public spending share of the UK’s constituent nations has spared Scotland £600m of cuts since the UK coalition’s austerity programme began in 2010,...
The number unemployed people in the UK fell by 115,000 to 1.96 million over the three months to September taking the unemloyment rate to 6%, according to the Office of National Statistics.
The cost of out-of-hours health services varies ‘unacceptably’ and NHS England lacks the information needed to understand why, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
Housing associations should be freed up to select their own social tenants, set their own rent policies and build more homes, Policy Exchange has proposed.
Councils should be given the right to set business rates and retain any growth in income, while Whitehall should lose its current redistribution powers, the Local Government Association has said.
CIPFA is to launch a Global Fraud Risk Register to help public sectors across the world improve efforts to tackle fraud threats, and to identify and react to emerging problems.
Early plans to integrate local health and social care services through the Better Care Fund are ‘inadequate’ and fail to match the scale of its ambition, the National Audit Office warned today.
New teacher training routes, which see student teachers learn on the job, can cost the government significantly more than traditional higher education-based routes, the Institute for Fiscal Studies...
Business leaders are urging the government to boost the living standards of low earners by raising the National Insurance threshold and expanding the provision of free childcare and maternity pay.
