The Local Government Association is embarking on a root-and-branch review of its operation as it prepares to confront a new era in town hall administration.
A local authority remains confident of transferring 18,000 homes to a new social landlord, although the government has ruled out its bid for £135m of extra funding.
The future of more than 50 pan-London community services remains in doubt, as the Association of London Government examines proposals to cut grants to voluntary and community organisations by up to a...
Councils in Scotland are in line for extra funding of around £100m to ease pressure on budgets and limit council tax rises in the year of elections to the Holyrood Parliament and local authorities.
Trade unions have vowed to fight the government's plan to outsource more than 1,650 jobs and responsibility for 25% of the NHS's non-pay spend to the German-based delivery firm DHL.
A sharp rise in the child prison population has left councils hard pressed to meet their statutory duties to care for vulnerable child ex-offenders, say town hall leaders.
Social care leaders have dismissed the government's claim that there is no need to compensate the sector for the extra responsibilities it has taken on through NHS 'cost shunting'.
Public sector procurement is set to come under attack from trade unions concerned that too many departments, agencies and local authorities still fail to promote workforce development and local job...
The Healthcare Commission is concerned about the standards of children's services in more than a quarter of casualty and almost half of the outpatients departments in England.
Charity supremo John Stoker has been appointed the first commissioner designate for the Compact, overseeing relationships between the government and the voluntary sector.
Local government leaders are demanding an urgent meeting with Education Secretary Alan Johnson over claims that authorities wanting to launch capital investment programmes for schools are being...
Vulnerable elderly hospital patients are going without food because the vast majority of nurses are too busy to help them feed themselves, according to new research from a leading charity.
As many as one in ten local authorities might have population figures that are flawed, the senior government statistician in charge of compiling them has admitted to Public Finance .
Subsidies for privately operated bus services are to be made available in Northern Ireland for the first time through a Passenger Transport Authority, transport minister David Cairns has announced.
Prime Minister Tony Blair will next week launch a new attack on social exclusion, extending help to vulnerable children and adults through existing funding, which could be boosted in this winter's...
Rural youngsters are being denied the education and training opportunities open to their urban counterparts because of accessibility problems, a leading think-tank said this week.
