The Audit Commission has published its annual review and says it shows the impact its work is having on public services as well as underlining its continued drive to improve financial management, ...

Fifty years ago I joined the town hall in Morley, Yorkshire as the office boy. I stuck on the stamps for a wage of £13 per month. How did the scene then compare with the present? Then, the age of ...

Domestic Violence Partnerships should be formed to create the space and opportunity for cross-service working. To achieve this, local authorities must encourage and demand input from all relevant ...

New research shows that the scheme under which school children are given free fruit may not bring long-term health benefits. A study published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health ...

A sentiment analysis has been applied to tweets about the Wimbledon Championship to reveal a range of insights into fan and sport pundits’ opinions around the games. The same analysis technique could ...

A think tank is predicting that councils could face central government funding cuts of at least a third. Research from the New Local Government Network suggests authorities could lose more than 12 ...

What’s the issue? Around a million older home-owners have at least £100,000 of housing equity, yet their incomes are so small that they qualify for means-tested benefits1. If these people could draw ...

The first areas to receive support from the newly formed Public Service Transformation Network have been announced by Communities and Local Government.

It finds that eighty per cent of people want services to be available electronically and three quarters of them want it to happen in the next five years. The study found most people were tired of ...

The Audit Commission says an annual Government survey of so-called NEETs – young people who are not in education, employment or training – has underestimated the scale of the problem. The Commission ...

This report from the Institute for Public Policy Research says that any plans by the new government to decentralise the delivery of public services to achieve greater efficiency must be coupled with ...

Unfortunately, the safety and well being of local authority staff has become an increasing cause for concern as many of these personnel work in isolation within the community, making them vulnerable ...