local authorities
Why local councils should be given the power to enforce the minimum wage
Councils are much closer to the ground than HMRC could ever be - they know local businesses, both good and bad
PAC: 20 per cent of local authorities are receiving the wrong amount of health funding
The PAC is concerned about high staff vacancy rates and a lack of money for incentives
The economics of co-operation: councils show valuable new ways to boost jobs and business
Existing centralised systems are least effective when tackling issues faced by people furthest from the labour market
For all Gove’s talk of parental choice, fewer pupils got their chosen secondary this year
There is increasing pressure on school places and Michael Gove’s policies are making things worse.
ConDem policies leave local authorities ‘decimated’
As the Labour faithful meets in Brighton this week, one of the party’s council leaders has warned that local authority-run services face being 'decimated' the way Thatcher destroyed many nationalised industries in the 1980s.
Birmingham’s widening “jaws of doom”
Birmingham's Labour-run council is facing a £625 million deficit by 2016/2017. Budget cuts of up to 50% are planned. What public services will survive?