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Housing benefit claims make authorities overspend their funding allocations

By Tom Bridge | 13 July 2016

More than 120 councils have overspent their government funding allocation to support the housing ...

Capital spend warning for councils

By Tom Bridge | 15 June 2016

Auditors have warned the risks from shifting council investment in capital programmes must be bet...

Spending on social care spirals by 25%

By Tom Bridge | 02 June 2016

Council spending on social care services has spiralled by as much as a quarter since 2012/13, dat...

Chancellor branded 'biggest threat to devolution'

By Tom Bridge | 17 May 2016

Greater Manchester’s interim mayor Tony Lloyd has branded chancellor George Osborne the ‘biggest ...

Key cities need fiscal freedom to reverse under investment

By Tom Bridge | 03 May 2016

Full fiscal autonomy must be extended to key cities if the Northern Powerhouse is to turn back fi...

Leeds to manage Syrians' relocation

By Tom Bridge | 12 April 2016

Leeds City Council has been approached by the Home Office to help manage an eight-year relocation...

Authority's plan to save UK steel sector

By Tom Bridge | 12 April 2016

Newcastle City Council has produced a four-point plan on how to save the UK steel industry.

Clark pledges to align councils and business

By Tom Bridge | 06 April 2016

Communities secretary Greg Clark has pledged that 100% rate retention will make business and coun...

Local authorities forced into council tax support cuts

By Tom Bridge | 05 April 2016

Some 340,000 low-income families will face a council tax rise this month as England’s local autho...

'Seek new models of care' Scots told

By Tom Bridge | 22 March 2016

The Scottish Government has been urged to find ‘new models’ for integrating health and social car...