Low funding and dwindling reserves mean a local authority in Derbyshire risks considering an unbalanced budget by 2021-22, councillors have been warned.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak needs to increase funding for local government in his forthcoming Budget if the government is serious about it's aim of 'levelling-up' the UK economy, says Paul Dossett.
The Scottish budget has passed its first parliamentary hurdle after the government struck a deal which saw extra funding secured for local authorities, policing and low carbon projects.
The prime minister has announced an extra £236m of funding as official figures show rough sleeping in England has fallen by 9% in a year but remains 141% higher than a decade ago.
The communities secretary has accused opposition MPs of “unnecessary scaremongering” over suggestions that the fair funding formula will see cash diverted from metropolitan councils to shire counties...
Local authorities have overspent on children’s social care by £3.2bn in the last five years as the try to offset cuts from central government, analysis has found.
Local authorities in England face a £19bn deficit over the next five years despite the vast majority hiking council tax rates in this year, analysis has found.
Council leaders have called for greater compulsory purchase powers after analysis showed less than 60% of granted planning permissions have been completed since 2009-10.
Melanie Dawes will leave her role as permanent secretary at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to become chief executive of Ofcom, it has been confirmed.
A 10% pay rise for council staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is affordable and would benefit the government through savings on benefits and increased tax revenues, unions have said.
Local authority investment in commercial property has increased fourteen-fold over three years as councils seek alternative sources of revenue amid cuts leaving them open to risk, the spending...
Recent events have seared the need for climate action into the public consciousness, with 74% expecting local communities to react, yet revenue and capital shortages are likely to increase, write Mo...
Major UK urban local authorities have urged the government to overhaul business rates and council tax systems as part of a move towards greater fiscal devolution.
Inclusive growth must be utilised by the government if it wants to achieve its goal of levelling-up the country in areas such as infrastructure spending, writes Luca Tiratelli of the New Local...
