CIPFA CONFERENCE 2011 VIDEO INTERVIEW: Chicago city treasurer Stephanie Neely outlines the financial challenges facing the US's third largest city. She also discusses the privatisation of public...
CIPFA CONFERENCE 2011 VIDEO INTERVIEW: CIPFA chief executive Steve Freer discusses the way local authority finance directors are handling their budgets; the future of council audit, backing plans to...
CIPFA CONFERENCE 2011 VIDEO INTERVIEW: Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles responds to the communities and local government select committee’s report on his changes to local authority audit. He...
As chamberlain of the City of London, CIPFA's incoming president is accustomed to holding a position of power and prestige. Chris Bilsland talks to PF about 'the best financial position in the public...
Community Budgets represent a 'step back' from the Total Place initiative begun under the previous government, Lord Bichard told CIPFA delegates in Birmingham yesterday.
Fragmentation of service provision will make it harder than ever to check on value for money, Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge told the CIPFA conference this morning.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has flatly denied to Public Finance that he warned the prime minister that a £500 cap on Housing Benefit would increase homelessness.
A pioneer of the free school movement has accused the government of breaking faith with the Big Society idea by putting bureaucratic obstacles in its path
Fiscal loosening ‘initially protected most people from the impact of the recession’ but ‘now we face five years of paying for it’, Institute for Fiscal Studies director Paul Johnson told the CIPFA...
CIPFA members have a major role to play in the success of the government's deficit-reduction strategy, the new institute president told conference delegates this morning.
Political pundit Simon Hoggart kicked off CIPFA's annual conference last night with a humorous account of the state of UK politics, branding most politicians 'bonkers' and insisting that every party...
It’s tricky to conduct change management programmes in the public sector, with a range of interest groups to please and an ever-watchful media. Faith Boardman has been at the sharp end and offers ten...
Japan's economy was in deep trouble well before the recent natural disasters struck. As it struggles to pick up the pieces, what lessons are there to be learnt from the country's 'lost decades'?
Loved and loathed in equal measure, Eric Pickles has made his mark on councils. But he has no regrets, he tells PF in an exclusive interview, as his cuts and changes are in the interests of local...
The American economy is hurting, and the pain is being pushed down to local government level. As debt rows rage on Capitol Hill, how are US cities and states trying to balance their budgets? PF...
The government has stolen some of the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ thunder by setting up the Office for Budget Responsibility. But there is still a big role for the institute's forensic analysis of...
