Councils in England will receive an extra £150m for adult social care next year, Sajid Javid announced today as he confirmed the local government finance settlement for 2018-19.
Nearly all local authorities in England with responsibility for social care are set to raise council tax by the maximum 4.99% allowed without a referendum, but the Local Government Association today...
Scotland’s biggest local authority grouping has pulled out of talks with ministers and officials over a Scottish Government plan to hand £100m of council tax revenues directly to head teachers in an...
The Welsh Government’s budget could be cut by 3.2% in real terms over the next three years, according to an analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The Scottish National Party’s proposal to reform rather than scrap the council tax would still bring about a significant shift in the burden from the poorest households to the wealthiest, according...
Council tax in England is set to rise by an average of 3.1% next year, according to an analysis by CIPFA, but residents in London will only see a 0.6% average increase.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced plans to make the council tax in Scotland more progressive and to end the nine-year rate freeze if the Scottish National Party returns to government after...
Councils in England are planning to raise an additional £372m in revenue to fund social care pressures, according to a Local Government Association analysis – however, the organisation is...
Scotland is to have a nationwide council tax freeze in 2016/17 for the ninth successive year, after all 32 local authorities accepted finance secretary John Swinney’s £10.3bn funding deal...
CIPFA has urged Scotland’s political parties to put the reform of local government finance at the top of their policy agendas for May’s Holyrood election and beyond, in the wake of a cross-party...
Haringey Council leader Claire Kober sits at the sharp end of government plans to reinvent local authority finance, where a willingness to take on more risk is becoming a necessity
Finance Secretary John Swinney has set Scotland’s 32 local authorities a deadline of 2 February to decide whether or not to accept a financial settlement he hopes will underpin a further year of the...
District councils are calling for the same freedoms to increase council tax as social care authorities in order to boost prevention and tackle health inequalities.
The debate over council reserves hasn’t gone away since Eric Pickles left the Department for Communities and Local Government. But council leaders are beginning to strike back.
Councils have called for additional powers to charge developers council tax if they let planning permission expire without completing construction of new homes.
Local government funding cuts are to ease in the years to 2019/20 compared to the last parliament and will be more evenly distributed across authorities, an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal...
Scotland’s council tax system should be replaced with a new levy designed to be fairer, more progressive and which gives greater powers to local communities, a landmark report has concluded.
People forced out of their homes by flooding will not be charged council tax until they can return to their properties, local government secretary Greg Clark has announced.
The government has launched a review of the localisation of council tax support that will consider the impact of the reform on local government finance and whether further reforms should be made to...
