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The government must fully understand the cost of doing nothing on adult and social care reform, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. Responding

Leeds City Council is projecting an in-year pressure of £19.780m on its DSG budget for 2024/25, which equates to 3.52% of its total estimated

The number of families in temporary accommodation “continues to rise and is at record levels”, according to Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

A £2 per night visitor charge is to be applied in Liverpool from 1 June 2025. A proposal to alter the city’s Accommodation BID

Local authorities are struggling to make the investment case for proactive and preventative care services, according to a commission established to explore the issue.

A Welsh pension fund has scaled down its equity holdings over the past year whilst nearly doubling the among of capital deployed in private

Regional businesses in the Midlands and the North of England are set to benefit from a new £81.5m funding boost with the launch of

A planned tax on burning plastic could place billions of pounds of “unavoidable costs” onto councils over the next decade, the Local Government Association

Net expenditure on temporary accommodation rental at Hackney Council has tripled in 12 months – from £8m in 2023/24 to a projected more than

Gloucester City Council has appointed Alison Turner as head of finance and resources, and section 151 officer. She has worked in local government finance

Portsmouth City Council has said “significant concerns” about the financial position a new authority would inherit, along with its current “sustainable” financial position, mean

Nottingham City Council is making slower progress in financial sustainability compared to other areas of the improvement plan drawn up in the wake of

The government is to roll out a new AI tool that aims to modernise council planning by replacing paper systems with “high-quality” digital data.

GMPF, the UK’s largest Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) fund with approximately £31bn in assets, expects pooling costs to double according to its latest

The industry body, which counts four LGPS members as part of its policy board is usually careful not to wade into day-to-day politics. But

Runnymede Borough Council is seeking revenue-generating and cost-saving opportunities through modern Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology. The authority has partnered with enterprise resource planning (ERP) provider

Some local authorities in England now have waiting lists exceeding 100 years for a family sized social home, according to new analysis from the

North Yorkshire Council is seeking to generate cost savings of £587,000 per year from an almost £2.5m investment in parking infrastructure. The council’s Executive

Barry Scarr has been appointed as the finance commissioner to Woking Council until 31 October 2025. Scarr is an industry veteran having served in

John Dewey, who most recently held the role of managing director Alternatives at HSBC, covering the firm’s $65bn private market business in Singapore has

Four local authorities are hoping to drive innovation by establishing a cross-council board to help guide strategy. The Marches Forward Partnership Board will build

The average transition cost for local government reorganisation (LGR) for each region undergoing the process has been placed at £31.1m by the Local Government

Glasgow City Council helped deliver more than 1,000 affordable homes in the past year through its Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) – despite “reduced

The government must keep the amount of funding being made available for local authority audit fees “under review against actual costs once they are

Swale Borough Council held the same amount of loans – £10m – at both 31 March and 31 December 2024, as part of its