Councils have been urged to give greater consideration to property ownership and asset sales before accusing residents of deliberately making themselves poorer to receive funded care, the Local...
The Scottish audit watchdog has raised concerns that Shetland Islands Council lacks a clear plan on how it will fund a forecast medium-term budget gap of up to £142m.
Four men will appear in court having been charged following a police investigation into allegations of financial irregularity at Lancashire County Council.
Council leaders and transport bodies welcomed the final extension of Covid-19 bus funding, but warned a long-term settlement is crucial to improving local travel services.
Luton Borough Council paid out more than £1m to a criminal organisation posing as its local enterprise partnership, and efforts to retrieve the money have so far failed.
The government is set to appoint a fifth commissioner at Liverpool City Council after a report found gaps in workforce capacity and capability across vital services.
Businesses in Bolton will be automatically awarded a share of pandemic relief grants despite not having applied for them because the council wants to make sure all available money goes into the city’...
Leisure centres in West Lothian will receive the guarantee of financial backing from the council after it agreed to provide a letter of comfort to the arms-length body running the services.
Six “ambitious” bids for money from the Levelling Up Fund make up a package that would regenerate areas in six of Leeds’ parliamentary constituencies, the city council has said.
Incidents reported to Glasgow City Council’s whistleblowing service grew by nearly 50% from the year before in 2021-22, but the numbers are still short of their level from before the onset of Covid-...
The government is seeking views on whether to retain a statutory override allowing local authorities to exclude changes to pooled investment values from revenue accounts.
London boroughs have spent more than £150m over the past year to bring more than 1,500 homes back into the public sector, replacing stock depleted by the right-to-buy scheme, the city’s mayor has...
Senior consultant at CIPFA Mark Williams clears up what the Prudential Code for Capital Finance in Local Authorities means for councils, and why the institute updated the framework last year.
Hybrid working arrangements will allow East Hampshire District Council to downsize its office, costing £1.7m but with the promise of saving nearly twice that in the coming decade.
South Somerset District Council is set to reprofile a regeneration project amid fears the authority could be forced to give the money back to the government.
Local authorities need additional central government funding to cover the cost of inflation and care needs to save the sector from “the brink of collapse”, a parliamentary committee has warned.
The government has closed a loophole that might have allowed councils to use capital receipts to fund revenue costs relating to workforce and service reforms while retaining some kind of ownership of...
A wage dispute between Coventry City Council and unionised refuse workers has cost the authority £4m and caused seven months of “disappointing delays”.
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council is set to terminate a private finance initiative contract early to help slim down its office portfolio and deliver savings.
