A selection of images representing communities.
The ten most recent reports and summaries published on the local government site.
An Improvement Notice issued to Birmingham City Council.
This plain English guide sets out the Government's response to its consultation and how the business rate retention scheme will operate.
The Government's response to its consultation on proposals for business rates retention sets out a clear rates retention scheme which will incentive local authorities to grow their economies by allowing them to retain a proportion of business rate growth.
This document sets out the outcome of that consultation, how the Government intends to respond to the issues raised, and its plans for enabling local authorities to introduce localised schemes in England from 2013-14.
An Improvement Notice issued to Slough Borough Council.
This prospectus invites local areas to apply to be new Community Budget pilots to test how better they can better design local services.
This document is a public summary of the report that FTI Consulting Limited prepared for the Department on the future of local public audit.
This report examines how Accounting Officers will both drive the Government's localism agenda and continue to account to Parliament for the use of public money.
The Government's formal response to the recommendations and conclusions set out in the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee report on Localism.
This paper provides further detail on the proposals in the consultation paper 'Local Government Resource Review: Proposals for Business Rates Retention'.
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