Private firms that provide public services in Scotland should be subject to Freedom of Information laws, according to the watchdog that oversees rules on disclosure
Social housing landlords will be required to set out how they will protect vulnerable residents in the forthcoming shake-up of social housing, which will end tenancies for life and introduce market-...
Audit fees for local government, health and community safety bodies will be cut by up to 20% in the 2011/12 financial year, the Audit Commission confirmed today.
Planned reforms to housing finance put new council homebuilding at risk by leaving too much power in the hands of Whitehall, the Local Government Association has warned.
Plans to impose a 10% Housing Benefit cut on anyone unemployed for more than a year have been dropped from the government’s Welfare Reform Bill, published today.
The Affordable Rent programme, which gives giving social housing providers the power to charge up to 80% of market rents, was officially launched today.
Could housing associations do more to boost efficiency in the age of austerity? Waqar Ahmed thinks so. But the group finance director at L&Q tells PF that the government must do its bit too
Bureaucracy in the planning system is to be dramatically cut back and replaced with a new set of rules designed to stimulate growth and hand more power to ‘communities’, the government has announced.
Local government minister Bob Neill has told Public Finance that today’s Decentralisation and Localism Bill will usher in a new ‘can-do’ era for councils.
Welfare reform is crucial to the coalition’s agenda. But ministers’ plans are driven by cuts rather than consistent principles, while Labour seems out of touch. Policy thinkers Gavin Kelly and Nick...
Housing minister Grant Shapps has given more details on his reforms to social housing, due to feature in the government’s forthcoming Decentralisation and Localism Bill
The strategy for tackling child poverty should be overhauled, with more funding targeted during the first five years of life, according to a major review published today
Ministers have confirmed that they will delay cutting Housing Benefit for existing claimants, and will introduce incentives for private landlords to drop their prices.
