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News - February 2013
Notts launches innovative employment scheme
Pickles to amend trigger for council tax referendums
Councils to act as Green Deal agents
Police complaints commission needs urgent reform, say MPs
Whitehall should give councils greater role in job schemes
Call for rethink of 'toxic' pension reforms
UK banks must obey ring-fence law or be broken up, says Osborne
Sturgeon updates capital spending plans for growth
Pickles appoints four Audit Commission board members
Austerity hits homeless housing goal
Average council cuts will be 1.3% not 1.7%, ministers confirm
Call for payment by results for prisons
MoD’s decisions on fighter jets ‘rushed and flawed’
Local control of transport cash risky, say MPs
Ofsted consults on plans to inspect councils with poor schools
NAO calls for better value for money from NHS consultants
Public sector job cuts likely to exceed one million, says IFS
Trust board slammed for Stafford Hospital’s ‘shocking’ care failings
Hospital care failings will trigger board suspension post-Stafford
Scots Budget passed with £50m boost for housing and colleges
R&C’s saving and IT plans ‘challenging’, say auditors
Schools should put their financial information online
MPs slam DoH over Peterborough PFI hospital
Official poverty definition ‘excludes 2 million children’
PAC finds flaws in fit-for-work assessments
Whitehall property changes have boosted London, says Maude
Town halls call for greater flood defence powers
Ofsted criticises schools over pupil premium spending
Independent Scotland should keep the pound, economists say
Government to cap care costs at £75,000
Councils to help people claim Universal Credit online
UK needs more cyber security experts, say auditors
Hunt confirms NHS inspection changes as 14 trusts face review
NAO praises jobcentres’ response to rise in claimants
More than a quarter of home care services ‘substandard’
UK will grow in first quarter, Bank of England predicts
R&C misses tax credit fraud target
Tax avoiders to be barred from government contracts
Health and care services worsening as cuts bite, say finance directors
Labour will reinstate 10p tax band, says Miliband
PAC slams unclear Treasury accounts and policies
Cabinet Office gives cash to 21 public service co-opsq
Councils ‘not to blame for horsemeat hamburgers’
Sturgeon insists independent Scotland could remain in EU
London Pension Fund joins capital investment platform
Council finance changes aim to boost regions, Clegg to say
Clegg announces 20 more City Deals
Tax avoidance advisers should be ‘named and shamed’, say MPs
Councils ‘need to tackle wide disparities in child poverty’
Borrowing target in doubt as 4G auction falls short
Unemployment rate stays at 7.8%
UK borrowing set to rise despite January surplus
Monitor publishes costing guidance for NHS finance staff
Pickles orders councils to follow top pay guidelines
Complicated financial models ‘costing Whitehall millions’
PAC slams Work Programme’s poor record
Half of authorities yet to decide on council tax freeze
Audit Scotland urges NHS waiting time overhaul
South East LEP calls for devolved funding pot
Further credit downgrades likely after Moody’s rate cut
Electoral Reform Society slams police commissioner elections
Statistics watchdog ‘should check Whitehall’s use of data’
DCMS slated for ‘feeble grip’ on finances
West Coast rail deal errors ‘to cost taxpayers £50m’
Council right-to-buy sales soar
Councils should be able to borrow to build, says CIH
Agenda for Change deal ‘will preserve national pay system’
UK growth in 2012 revised up to 0.2%
Town halls should tackle poor school governors, says Ofsted
Scottish council capital spending up by £300m
Council tax to rise in 41% of English authorities
Unison rejects ‘derisory’ local government pay offer
Whitehall resisting centralised purchasing, say auditors
Mid-Staffs could go into administration
More councils fear effects of Whitehall policies
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News - February 2013
Notts launches innovative employment scheme
Public bodies in Nottinghamshire received more than 800 applications for an innovative training scheme that allows finance staff to work across different employers
01 February 2013
Pickles to amend trigger for council tax referendums
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has announced plans to alter the referendum trigger for council tax rises after warning that charges from a 'secret state' of unelected local bodies were adding to bills.
01 February 2013
Councils to act as Green Deal agents
Energy minister Greg Barker has urged councils to become 'agents' for energy efficiency following the launch of the government's landmark Green Deal programme.
04 February 2013
Police complaints commission needs urgent reform, say MPs
MPs have called for the Independent Police Complaints Commission to be reformed after finding the 'woefully under-equipped' watchdog does not have the trust of the public.
01 February 2013
Whitehall should give councils greater role in job schemes
Giving local authorities a greater role in skills and training programmes could cut youth unemployment by around 20% in just three years, the Local Government Association has found.
02 February 2013
Call for rethink of 'toxic' pension reforms
Government reforms to the state pension could increase the cost of public sector pensions to the taxpayer, a think-tank warned today.
04 February 2013
UK banks must obey ring-fence law or be broken up, says Osborne
Chancellor George Osborne has said UK banks will be broken up if they fail to follow planned rules to protect taxpayers from any future bailouts.
04 February 2013
Sturgeon updates capital spending plans for growth
The Scottish Government has today published a revised plan for capital spending, with a claim that the £3.1bn investment programme is supporting 40,000 jobs in the current year.
04 February 2013
Pickles appoints four Audit Commission board members
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has appointed four new members to the board of the Audit Commission, which will be tasked with shutting down the spending watchdog.
04 February 2013
Austerity hits homeless housing goal
A cross-party Holyrood guarantee of homes for all Scotland's homeless people could be scuppered by the UK coalition government's austerity programme, housing charity Shelter Scotland has said.
05 February 2013
Average council cuts will be 1.3% not 1.7%, ministers confirm
Town hall cuts for 2013/14 will be smaller than forecast, according to the latest government figures.
04 February 2013
Call for payment by results for prisons
The prison service should be included in the payment-by-results system being proposed for probation services, Policy Exchange said today.
05 February 2013
MoD's decisions on fighter jets 'rushed and flawed'
The coalition government's initial decision to change the jets being procured for new aircraft carriers was 'closed, rushed and flawed', MPs have said.
05 February 2013
Local control of transport cash risky, say MPs
Plans to give councils greater control of local transport spending could weaken transparency and accountability for public money, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
05 February 2013
Ofsted consults on plans to inspect councils with poor schools
Ofsted today published details of its planned inspection regime for English local authority education departments whose schools are under-performing.
05 February 2013
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