The Scottish Government will be unable to meet its net zero ambitions without reforms to departmental governance and oversight, an influential think-tank has warned.
A council leader has criticised “civil servant and Treasury orthodoxy” in his resignation statement, saying he refuses to implement “maximum council tax and cuts to services”.
A senior Labour MP has asked whether the block on new capital spending from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will impede housing projects.
High construction costs and concern over the impact of interest rate rises mean Enfield Council will review how it delivers a 10,000-home development project, and the authority has already pressed...
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Government proposals to move the date for annual Local Government Pension Scheme valuations mere weeks before the valuations take place will create further administrative burdens for funds, experts...
Millions returned to councils from a waste-to-energy plant prove a publicly owned facility is “far preferable” to paying for a private business to run the site, one of the councils has said.
Scottish Government proposals for increasing taxes on higher earners to fund more generous benefits are more progressive than the rest of the UK, but are at risk of being avoided, the Institute for...
Government plans to join up healthcare services will fail unless long-term issues over funding disparity between the NHS and social care are fixed, MPs have warned.
Children in care remain at risk of gang exploitation unless the government develops a clear plan to effectively regulate private care providers – a plan missing from its new strategy – an expert has...
Capital spending restrictions imposed on the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will hamper local authority investment and harm the government’s flagship policy, experts have warned.
Allowing three struggling local authorities to raise council tax beyond the normal limit only pushes the cost of their failure onto residents, experts have said.
Councils need additional income-raising powers and longer-term funding allocations in order to run sustainably, so the local government settlement remains a missed opportunity, senior figures in the...
A rare public interest report into historic governance issues at Cheshire East Council highlights the declining standards of public officials in recent years, the external auditors who published the...
Concerns over soaring private rental costs have prompted Westminster City Council to propose spending more than £80m to buy properties for temporary accommodation.
Proposals to improve oversight and transparency in the children’s care market are unlikely to significantly reduce costs without action on profiteering, experts have warned.
Inflation being predicted to fall sharply this year was not enough to keep the Bank of England from raising interest rates for the tenth consecutive meeting of its Monetary Policy Committee.
The three major unions representing council workers in England have requested an above inflation pay offer for 2023-24, to start reversing “years of pay erosion”.
The government has been urged not to blame social care capacity for delays to hospital discharge, and to ensure the sector has enough funding to meet demand.
A senior minister has warned that plans for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council to create additional revenues must keep to the “spirit and intent” of local government guidance.
Warrington Borough Council is set to discuss its borrowing and capital investment strategies with CIPFA, in an attempt to show how its approach, previously flagged as a concern by the government, “is...
