LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Don't top-slice sector-led improvement, authorities warn Whitehall

By Dan Peters | 24 February 2015

Urban authorities have criticised government plans to top-slice funding for sector-led improveme...

FINANCE

SIGOMA highlights local government finance 'imbalance'

By Dan Peters | 24 February 2015

Urban councils have warned they may be unable to deliver key services to poor, high-need areas wi...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Urban councils to present 'fairer' funding model

By Dan Peters | 24 February 2015

Urban areas will today outline a fairer funding model that would establish the ‘true base cost of...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Fiscal fears rocket

By Dan Peters | 17 February 2015

The MJ/LGiU study reveals fears over statutory duties and low funding, as local government financ...

FINANCE

Rural cuts will hurt communities

03 February 2015

Rural local authorities have warned prime minister David Cameron that further cuts will ‘threaten...

WHITEHALL

Council cuts recycling to save local welfare scheme

By Dan Peters | 27 January 2015

A council that battled in court to keep local welfare funding has been forced to propose cuts to ...

WHITEHALL

SIGOMA angered over loss of government grants

By Jamie Hailstone | 06 January 2015

A group of councils has accused the Government of trying to downplay the impact of the latest loc...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

A worrying trend towards self-sufficiency

By Frances Foster | 05 December 2014

Treasurer of the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities, Frances Foster, on the unfairne...

FINANCE

SIGOMA call for funding rethink

By Heather Jameson | 02 December 2014

The current Government’s funding system is ‘based on rewarding affluence rather than funding need...

WHITEHALL

Hillingdon in dramatic BCF snub

By Dan Peters | 28 October 2014

A rebel council has refused to submit a Better Care Fund (BCF) plan amid widespread dissatisfacti...

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