Healthcare cash aimed at easing the integration of social care and health services is being used to plug huge holes in social service budgets instead, the Department of Health has admitted.
So, the conference season is over and, having been at all three conferences, running more than a dozen fringe events, I have been given a fascinating insight into politics at both the very top and the grass roots.
Councils could be forced to slash childrens centre funding as they struggle to cope with a predicted 27% cut in early intervention budgets, finance directors have warned.
Localis’ Catalyst Councils report was today referenced in the Financial Times, as part of an article arguing that local government is being innovative in response to the spending challenge.
Local rate retention has not gifted authorities the financial independence they crave, but it is a first step towards autonomy
Residential property owners including social landlords are to be offered 125 million of ‘cashback’ payments as an incentive to take up the government’s green deal scheme.
A new report has suggested that UK charities are being hampered by a number of factors in their effort to engage with the public sector and help provide services to those in need of them.
The chairman of an influential Commons committee has slammed government proposals to remove planning powers from struggling councils and hand them to Whitehall, without the right of appeal.
Local government is poised to establish its biggest collective energy-switching venture, with up to 26 councils ? including the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) ? in talks to join Oldham MBC’s initiative.
Dan Hannan MEP gives his views on attending party conferences, ahead of speaking at a Localis Conservative Party Conference fringe event.