MPs have launched an enquiry into the role played by skills provision in local economic growth plans amid pressure for funding and decision making to be devolved to the local level.
Data shows 185 councils are yet to adopt local plans, despite 1 April deadline
As the current prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh, once remarked: ‘Borders cannot be redrawn, but we can work towards making them irrelevant ? towards making them just lines on a map.’
The government must establish mechanisms for dealing with widespread financial failure in local authorities, the National Audit Office has warned in its first assessment of the sectors financial robustness.
Passengers will not have to pay premium ticket prices to use the high speed rail network as the Government promised the service will available to everyone.
Councils have made combined 263m savings from shared service initiatives, the Local Government Association (LGA) has reported.
Nearly nine out of 10 councils are due to lose funding for ‘early intervention’ services such as nursery places and Sure Start centres, despite a government pledge to boost their budgets, LGC analysis shows.
Alex Thomson, chief executive of Localis, was quoted in an article in the Guardian about the future for private finance in the public sector.
Councils budgets for public health will rise to £2.66bn this year and almost £2.8bn in 2014-15, the Department of Health will announce shortly.
Chief Executive of Localis, Alex Thomson, participated in a Guardian online debate about the skills needed for the future local government workforce.