This failed model – pursuing growth in one corner of the country and leaving social security to deal with the consequences in communities left in the cold – overlooks the potential of those places and ...

This is the inevitable consequence of insufficient focus on vocational education over a long period of time, combined with ...

Employers must step up their efforts to keep people in jobs to counter the surge in economic inactivity since the Covid-19 pandemic, a government-commissioned review has warned.

Local Government Pension Scheme chiefs strongly support the government’s ambition for them to invest locally but cite significant obstacles in delivery, a survey has revealed.

New figures show action on childhood obesity is needed in the coming Budget, the Local Government Association has said.

The Bank of England has held interest rates at 4%, but the five-to-four split in Monetary Policy Committee votes suggested this might not continue for much longer.

Labour’s manifesto promise to not raise the three ‘main’ taxes is at risk of being broken in the Budget, with the chancellor warning of poor economic performance and “hard choices” ahead.

Metro mayors could use new integrated transport scheme powers to connect more than a million people to their city centres, a think-tank has claimed.

A draft proposal for a single new unitary council covering Worcestershire would cost £59m to implement, cut the number of councillors in half and deliver a “comparatively rapid return” within three ...

A draft proposal for a single new unitary council covering Worcestershire would cost £59m to implement, cut the number of councillors in half and deliver a “comparatively rapid return” within three ...

PF looks at the recent history and near future of the English local audit system to ask what went wrong, and what the government is doing about it. - Long form article, Audit Commission, Local Audit, ...

Councils are struggling to meet their legal duty to provide home-to-school transport in the face of mounting pressures which have seen budgets overspent by over £400m.