A wage dispute between Coventry City Council and unionised refuse workers has cost the authority £4m and caused seven months of “disappointing delays”.
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council is set to terminate a private finance initiative contract early to help slim down its office portfolio and deliver savings.
Rising wages are set to make school finances difficult next year as funding increases fall below forecast spending growth, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.
Councils and the government have agreed a devolution deal for York and North Yorkshire that would create a new mayoral combined authority backed with more than half a billion pounds of long-term...
Scottish local government leaders have rejected claims from a union that they missed a crucial meeting to discuss the 2022-23 pay offer amid looming industrial action.
Sheffield City Council’s finance director has warned the authority might struggle to deliver this year’s budget because the £25m of reserves it set aside to meet overspends has been “essentially...
Liverpool City Council’s failure to renew an electricity contract promptly could have cost the authority £7.5m more than if it had extended earlier, an independent report has found.
The children’s care sector needs a workforce strategy to improve services and conditions for staff, with the regulator labelling the situation “more urgent than ever”.
The government could give commissioners at Slough Borough Council new powers after they expressed concern over how “hands-on” they have had to be while trying to help the authority turn itself around.
Independent analysis of procurement bids received by Transport for London would help ensure projects provide value for money, a scrutiny body has said, adding that it could help the Greater London...
Liverpool City Council has been warned that failing to meet in-year cut targets will put pressure on future budgets, harming the authority’s medium-term financial stability.
The finance chief at Leeds City Council has predicted that more workers could come into the office once temperatures start to drop if their rising household energy bills mean they would save money by...
Councils will not be able to fix recruitment and retention issues afflicting social care services if they do not have enough money to ensure staff are paid properly, MPs have warned.
Nottinghamshire County Council prevented two attempted incidents of cyber fraud in 2021-22, saving the authority more than half a million pounds, it has emerged.
Councils in England could receive grants to offset landfill tax costs when redeveloping brownfield and contaminated land, in a move the government hopes could help transform underused and derelict...
Tax cuts proposed by Conservative leadership candidate Liz Truss could cost more than £30bn and break the government's fiscal rules, economists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies have warned.
More than £4m of public money was prevented from being wrongly paid out in Northern Ireland following a “data matching” exercise, according to a report from the Northern Ireland Audit Office.
A coastal council in the south of England has paused its plans to sell valuable beach huts amid discussions with the government over £54m of financing flexibilities, it has emerged.
Debt-ridden Slough Borough Council has decided to sell three pieces of land owned by a joint-venture company because it believes developing them would add too much to its already-high borrowing.
Increased service demand and soaring inflation have created a “perfect storm”, according to the finance director of an English county council forecasting a medium-term funding gap of up to £200m a...
The government’s reluctance to fully fund pay rises for NHS staff this year could leave trusts with a funding gap of £1.8bn, a leading health service figure has warned.
The cost-of-living crisis is set to exacerbate existing funding constraints for councils and the social care market, and more central government funding will be necessary to avoid a winter crisis,...
