Public sector employers expect an improvement in the jobs outlook over the next three months, with more expecting to hire staff than are anticipating shedding posts, a survey has found.
Local council tax support schemes introduced following the government’s welfare reforms have reduced work incentives in some part of the country, the Public Accounts Committee has found.
Plans to abolish the Audit Commission remain on track to save £1.2bn over ten years, the Department for Communities and Local Government has stated today.
Senior Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians today unveiled new fiscal proposals to strengthen devolution, following criticisms that the No campaign for the Scottish independence referendum has...
Labour’s job guarantee for young people will be fully funded for the duration of the next Parliament through a levy on bankers’ bonuses and a cut in pension tax relief, the party said today
Councils are to receive an extra £140m to repair roads damaged by this winter’s severe weather, but local authorities warned the money would not be enough to cover the maintenance bill.
Labour should dump plans to offer Scots another tranche of fiscal devolution and focus on building a better Scotland with the powers already at Holyrood’s disposal, one of the party’s most senior...
Significant reform of the council tax will require a government with a substantial majority and possibly a two-term timeframe, according to a former Labour local government minister.
Vic Emery, the chair of Scotland’s controversial national police authority, laid claim to a successful first year in operation, but admitted that there was still further to travel
Scotland’s public finance professionals should not wait for political permission before innovating to reform and improve service delivery, Finance Secretary John Swinney told the CIPFA Scotland...
Greater collaboration between the three emergency services is being hampered by the lack of clear direction from Whitehall, CIPFA’s police conference was told.
Health and social care services have failed to keep pace with dramatic demographic changes and need to be radically remodelled, the King’s Fund said today
It is not yet possible to say whether the government’s Help to Buy equity loans, designed to improve access to mortgage finance, will provide taxpayers with value for money, the National Audit Office...
Public service outsourcing firms today said they were willing to start using open-book accounting and allow their contracts to be scrutinised by the National Audit Office
The cost of local government pension administration could be cut in half through greater use of shared services and fund mergers, a government-backed pension firm has said.
Senior doctors should be offered incentive payments to work in understaffed accident and emergency departments, the Public Accounts Committee said today.
The six most senior finance leaders in the NHS are backing a campaign to consolidate and develop financial management across the health service after the government’s restructure
