WHITEHALL

Working group to be formed on council data requests

By Dan Peters | 28 February 2022

The Government is to form a working group to understand what data it is ‘feasible’ for councils t...

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE

The levelling up of local government funding is long overdue

By Chris Tambini | 09 February 2022

The system for funding local services is desperately in need of root and branch reform and a half...

WHITEHALL

New accountability body 'stops short' of Audit Commission reinvention

By Heather Jameson | 08 February 2022

Plans for a body to oversee the accountability of local government stop just short of re-inventin...

FINANCE

EXCLUSIVE: Government has no action plan for improving children's social care

By Dan Peters | 08 February 2022

The Government has admitted it does not have a single detailed action plan to deliver high-qualit...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Auditors in levelling up warning

By Mark Conrad | 31 January 2022

The Government’s levelling up plans could be undermined by Whitehall failure to monitor what work...

WHITEHALL

Hillier rages over 'chronic' lack of funding

By Mark Conrad | 31 January 2022

A ‘chronic’ lack of funding for council services amid soaring demand means many communities face ...

WHITEHALL

Levelling up transparency call amid funding row

By Dan Peters | 25 January 2022

Whitehall officials were this week facing renewed pressure over how the Levelling Up Fund was dol...

PLANNING

Levelling up: extreme measures

By Dan Peters | 19 January 2022

Dan Peters looks at the list of performance indicators chosen by Government for the Department fo...

NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE

A late-notice, short-term and partial settlement poses problems

By Abdool Kara | 18 January 2022

There may be a clue about why the sector only has a one-year settlement in the lack of announceme...

NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE

Local audit's perfect storm

By Naomi Larsson | 08 December 2021

The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has suggested the volume of late audits means Whitehal...

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