Raising the state pension age from 65 to 66 pushed nearly 100,000 65-year-olds into income poverty, leading to calls for more support for people in their 60s to find work.
A council has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds of grants out of next year’s budget as part of a savings drive aimed at saving the authority millions.
Local Government Pension Schemes should make a significant push to reform complex governance arrangements to offer a more joined-up and coherent approach, according to experts.
A council in the south of England is set to reverse a decision to terminate an energy contract, after its supplier’s link to the Russian government ended.
Levelling up secretary Michael Gove was unable to confirm how the government will fund the proposed expansion of the right-to-buy scheme, but urged MPs to “watch this space”.
A group of MPs has criticised the government’s procurement at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, which they say has left officials needing to burn billions of pounds worth of surplus or faulty...
An English council is set to terminate a property management joint venture after an independent review found the business offered “limited value” to the authority.
Proposals to expand the right-to-buy scheme to housing associations and earmark national infrastructure levy income for new social housing have sparked funding concerns among councils.
The Treasury has defended itself against a think-tank’s claim that it spent billions of pounds more than necessary on interest on the government’s debts.
Some regions across the UK are likely to miss out on initial development funding as the government directs its support towards the most deprived areas first, according to experts.
A chief finance officer at a council in the north of England did not rule out issuing further section 114 notices over potentially unlawful spending, having already issued one last month.
The lack of clarity over ministerial involvement in approving Levelling Up Fund bids has been branded “unsatisfactory” by parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.
The three major unions representing council workers in England have requested a “substantial pay rise” this year to help mitigate the impact of soaring inflation on their members.
Government plans to cut the civil service by 91,000 jobs in three years are more drastic than those experienced at even the harshest point of austerity in the 2010s, trade unions have said, warning...
A West Midlands council is looking to commercialise its management of parks, theatres and museums in a bid to reduce the burden they place on its revenue budget.
Public bodies could find it difficult to retain senior staff if the decade-long trend of sharper pay reductions at the top of the sector continues, an expert has warned.
Scotland is set to prioritise spending on health, education and climate change over the next four years, leaving other areas such as local government facing cuts, according to experts.
