NHS chief executive Simon Stevens today set out plans for the health service and councils to work together to give people with high care needs greater control over their treatment as part of a ‘big...
The first issue of municipal bond is set to go ahead next spring after the Local Government Association confirmed it had raised more than seven times the necessary funding to launch the agency.
The Local Government Association has called on the next government to create local education trusts to drive school improvement across England and end the confusion over accountability following the...
Auditors have urged the Department for Transport to better coordinate procurement of trains and rail infrastructure upgrades after concluding that plans to electrify the Great Western mainline at the...
The next government must seize the opportunity to devolve financial powers to city regions in England, the Commons’ local government select committee has recommended.
Public sector workers are more than £2,000 worse off since the coalition government came to power in 2010 as a result of pay restrictions, the Trades Union Congress said today.
The Department of Health has confirmed that it will legislate to ensure fundamental standards of care are being followed by all health and social care providers.
The new chair of the Local Government Association has called for councils to be given new powers to coordinate local employment support after warning that millions could be left without suitable work...
Labour has proposed the creation of local public accounts committees to monitor the value for money and performance of public services under plans to devolve greater control of spending.
The Office of Rail Regulation has ordered government-owned Network Rail to pay back £53m to the Treasury after failing to meet punctuality targets in the five years between 2009 and 2014.
Ministers have altered the rules governing the flagship Better Care Fund to allow it to support hospital services if local integration plans fail to reduce admissions.
The government today signed growth deals with each of the 39 local enterprise partnerships in England under the £2bn single pot reforms for economic development, but more than £250m...
Councils have called for part of the revenue from fuel duty to be given to local authorities so it can be used to quicken the pace of road repairs and avoid a crisis in the state of local...
Whitehall’s grant-making activities are not well co-ordinated and there is no central register of those currently in operation, the National Audit Office has said.
Nearly two-thirds of people say that they have seen no real change in council services despite reductions in local authority funding as part of the coalition government’s deficit reduction plan, a...
The Public Accounts Committee has cast doubt on the effectiveness of Monitor as the regulator of foundation trusts after warning that the number of hospitals getting in financial difficulty was...
Government changes to the interest rate local authorities pay to borrow from the Public Works Loan Board have become a barrier to councils making decisions to invest in economic infrastructure, the...
Public servants must look beyond national borders and election cycles to meet the challenges of globalisation, the CIPFA conference heard from EY’s Uschi Schreiber.
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has called for an examination into the future of public audit following the abolition of the Audit Commission.
Spending cuts being imposed on councils mean that the statutory duties placed on town halls will need to be revisited, delegates at the CIPFA conference have heard.
There is little appetite among voters to pay higher taxes to support public services, and other options will be needed to pay for local government and the NHS in future, the CIPFA conference has...
