Councillors must confront residents with the fiscal reality of national spending decisions ahead ...
Even if there is a slackening and the timetables are revised the pressure on spending won’t mirac...
Despite UKIP’s successes, David Walker assesses the wider challenges ‘protest parties’ would face...
Local government should put its many problems to one side and support the chancellor's enthusiasm...
Austerity government has seen fiscal tightening strengthen the power of central government treasu...
The knock-on effects of freezing business rates conceal inherent dangers for local government fin...
The Coalition’s ‘bonfire of the quangos’ has produced more smoke than fire, with performance and ...
The abolition of the Audit Commission comes with unforeseen consequences, writes David Walker, wh...
Imagine if, on New Year’s Day, you had woken up to a joint statement by 10 of local government’s ...
David Walker asks if anyone will join the LGA in addressing fears further cuts are set to decimat...
