More councils face scaling back services to a minimum statutory offer if prime minister Theresa May reneges on her promise of ‘better times ahead,’ local authority chief executives have warned.
Councils are at the ‘end of the queue’ when it comes to receiving funding from the Treasury, the chief executive of Brighton & Hove Council has said.
Preston City Council is to be asked to support a second referendum on Brexit this week following a motion put forward by Liberal Democrat councillor Neil Darby.
Councils in rural Dorset are to cut more than 200 management posts, and the job losses could in time save between £6m and £8m a year.
Whitehall must use the expertise of councils to sort out Universal Credit (UC), a former senior Government adviser has told The MJ.
The solution to the social care funding crisis should emerge from general taxation and means-testing reforms instead of hypothecated taxes, Sir Andrew Dilnot has warned.
Gloucestershire CC’s director of finance, Jo Walker, will leave behind her 30-year career at the authority when she joins North Somerset Council as its new chief executive next year.
Theresa May’s promise to bring an ‘end to austerity’ is incompatible with the chancellor’s aim of balancing the books by the mid-2020s, financial experts have said.
Norfolk CC has been in talks with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) over a potential revival of a regional devolution deal, the council’s leader has revealed.
Focus must be switched from reducing delays in transfers of care to ensuring community care is fully resourced, care leaders have urged.
Andrew Cox explains the way Watford BC invested in an innovative way of finding commercial partners to develop new digital technologies for the council.
A separate grant to reward councils that help Government achieve its policy objectives under business rates retention could be introduced, The MJ understands.
A coalition of northern local government leaders has called for full powers governing the management of all rail infrastructure to be handed to the region.
Nearly 1.5 million emergency hospital admissions could have been avoided if the right care had been in place, MPs have warned today.
Bob Neill asks why more local authorities are not making more use of the valuable skills and perspectives a magistrate within their workforce can provide.
Local authorities should treat winter service preparations ‘as an integral part’ of resilience planning for civil contingencies, according to a Whitehall-commissioned review.
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