Now the dust has settled - two weeks after the local elections - the Institute for Government’s Graham Atkins gives some advice for newly-elected councillors on five challenges they need to address....
Management of Scotland’s public finances is to be transformed with a far greater focus on outcomes, delegates at the CIPFA Scotland annual conference have heard.
The government will find it hard to increase spending on public services even if it wishes to do so, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned after yesterday’s Spring Statement.
Mark Drakeford, Welsh cabinet secretary for finance and local government, talks exclusively to PF about taxes, budget setting and why austerity is a failed policy.
Nearly two-thirds of the public say government spending should increase even if that means higher taxes as support for austerity fades, according to research.
Public money is being wasted because a government body set up to buy common goods and services centrally has delivered disappointing results, the Committee of Public Accounts says today.
Chancellor Philip Hammond today set out three new fiscal rules as he confirmed the government had abandoned its plan to reach a spending surplus by 2020.
Theresa May has been urged to learn from the mistakes of previous governments and avoid unrealistic commitments to improving public sector efficiency that undermine the public’s trust in government...
Scottish public spending could face a severe squeeze over the next few years as the transfer of fiscal powers leaves the public finances markedly more dependent on the uncertain performance of the...
Scotland’s public finances ended 2015-16 almost £15bn in deficit thanks to a massive slump in the North Sea revenues, according to the latest figures produced by the Scottish Government.
Communities secretary Greg Clark has announced the government will provide a £150m transitional support scheme for councils in each of the next two years in response to concerns over changes to...
The planned shift to English Votes for English Laws highlights the need to review “unsatisfactory” arrangements for approving public spending across the UK, a committee of MPs has said.
Local authorities and the voluntary and community sector serve the same communities and individuals. As further government cuts are likely in the Spending Review, it is in their mutual interest to...
The Treasury has announced a plan to cap redundancy payments across the public sector at £95,000 to end what Chief Secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands said were ‘golden goodbyes’ paid for by the...
A banking scandal on an epic scale, flagrant misuse of public funds, fearless investigators and a grasping Scottish cabal in Westminster. Familiar? It happened 200 years ago.
Council spending in England fell by almost a third over the duration of the last Parliament, with housing and planning the areas that were hardest hit, CIPFA analysis has found.
Views from the 2015 CIPFA CFO Summit which considered challenges for public services around the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review and the need for service transformation.
Middle-income households will be the hardest hit by planned government spending reductions on public services, an analysis for the Trades Union Congress has found.