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

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Funding for bus services has been “short-term, fragmented and poorly targeted”, hindering investment in the sector, according to a cross-party group of MPs.

Councils do not explicitly underwrite risk, so why should local government entities need to account like insurers? If transactions and balances were not accounted for applying IFRS 4, its replacement ...