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Councillors in South Oxfordshire are have been ordered not to take the district’s spatial plan back to the drawing board amid warnings the move could jeopardise hundreds of millions of[…]
Private sector and institutional lenders have been quick to react after the Treasury this week priced itself out of the long-term local government lending market. A new era for local[…]
The government is proposing to compensate councils with negative revenue support grant (RSG) in 2020/21, it has announced in a consultation on the distribution of next year’s local government finance[…]
Local areas could get more powers and cash from central government – but face government pressure to adopt unitary models, following this week’s Conservative Party conference. Speaking this week at[…]
A panel of finance directors gathered at Room151’s FDs’ Summit last week to chew over the implications of the recently-announced one-year spending settlement. In August, the government unveiled a one-year[…]
Shropshire Council says last week’s Spending Review has rescued it from exhausting its reserves this year. A report from external auditors going before councillors this week says the authority faces[…]
The government failed to properly assess the financial consequences for councils of 2014 reforms to the system for supporting young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), according to[…]
Social care and special needs funding were among the biggest winners in the chancellor’s spending statement. Sajid Javid promised certainty for a new era in his one-year spending statement. But[…]
Special educational services are set for a £700m boost but directors have cautioned money alone isn’t enough. As part of a major spending pledge for primary and secondary education, the[…]
Councils say they need more help from the government after its £1bn pledge of high street funding. The government announced 50 councils could bid for up to £1bn from the[…]
