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9 Jul 19
District councils are juggling a host of financial challenges as they face greater spending commitments at a time when funding is falling and when many of the challenges on the horizon are ‘unknowns’.
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4 Jul 19
CIPFA’s upcoming financial management code will set the scene, but organisations will benefit to a far greater extent when this is seen as part of a wider cultural shift towards collective...
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4 Jul 19
Pivotal choices loom on local government funding but if we don’t address what we expect from our councils we risk a system that fails to meet needs, says the IFS’ David Phillips.
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4 Jul 19
Northamptonshire County Council has reported a budget underspend - as the prime minister tells MPs she will seek to reorganise the local authority “as soon as practical”.
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2 Jul 19
In a feature article and editorial published online and in the June 2019 edition of Public Finance, we referred to a “litany” of high profile “audit failures” in recent years, including Lehman...
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2 Jul 19
Ileana Steccolini, who is speaking at the CIPFA conference on 10 July, looks at whether organisational capacities make a difference to local government financial resilience.
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28 Jun 19
CIPFA’s Financial Management code will be reworked into a “leaner” document that retains key standards of good financial management.
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28 Jun 19
“Serious concerns” remain over the finances of Clackmannanshire Council, which faces a budget gap of £23m over the next three years.
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18 Jun 19
The demands on upper-tier authorities to deliver costly social care services will be more accurately reflected in the forthcoming shake-up of local government funding, MPs have heard.
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14 Jun 19
Decentralising the financial system could rebalance growth across the country - and help local authorities as they become increasingly reliant on business rates, suggest Ben Gardiner and Ron...
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11 Jun 19
Managers have a vital role to play in promoting day-to-day health and wellbeing at work and supporting a cultural shift that will benefit both individuals and the organisation, writes CIPFA’s...
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6 Jun 19
Councils’ increasing reliance on business rates is a “20th century solution”, the housing, communities and local government committee has been told.
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4 Jun 19
An equity fund, which has been haemorrhaging clients, has barred a county council from accessing its “deteriorating” investment.
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29 May 19
The BBC has named 11 English councils at risk of exhausting their reserves entirely by 2024 if they continue to raid them at current rates.
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15 May 19
The government has approved plans to replace eight Northamptonshire councils with two unitaries.
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14 May 19
Brexit money, cash for the Windrush generation and puppy smuggling. All in May’s edition of Numbers Game.
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14 May 19
There is a complete lack of transparency over the government’s handling of local authorities with governance issues, MPs have warned.
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9 May 19
Ensuring a diverse workforce will improve public financial management and foster creativity, writes Gillian Fawcett of Public Finance by Women
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18 Apr 19
The Competitions and Markets Authority’s proposals to partially break up the ‘big four’ accounting firms to increase competition “will have consequences” for local government, CIPFA has said.
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17 Apr 19
In dealing with the increased risks that accompany declining budgets, escalating demand and political uncertainty, public sector organisations across the UK have proven to be incredibly adaptable and...
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11 Apr 19
Significant sums of public money are at risk as financial controls within councils come under increasing strain, according to the public spending watchdog for Scottish local government.
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29 Mar 19
Northamptonshire County Council’s finances “remain fragile” due to a lack of robust reserves and require savings of £40m, its finance commissioner Brian Roberts has told PF.
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28 Mar 19
Northamptonshire County Council’s commissioners have called for the local authority’s section 114 notice to be lifted, saying it should move from “under the shadow of this failure”.
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26 Mar 19
The Royal Bank of Scotland is planning to close down the last £1bn of its LOBO loan portfolio by the end of this year, The Guardian has reported.
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20 Mar 19
CIPFA is seeking views on guidance to steer local authorities through the “increasingly complex issues of public finance”.
9 Jul 19District councils are juggling a host of financial challenges as they face greater spending commitments at a time when funding is falling and when many of the challenges on the horizon are ‘unknowns’.
4 Jul 19CIPFA’s upcoming financial management code will set the scene, but organisations will benefit to a far greater extent when this is seen as part of a wider cultural shift towards collective...
4 Jul 19Pivotal choices loom on local government funding but if we don’t address what we expect from our councils we risk a system that fails to meet needs, says the IFS’ David Phillips.
4 Jul 19Northamptonshire County Council has reported a budget underspend - as the prime minister tells MPs she will seek to reorganise the local authority “as soon as practical”.
28 Jun 19CIPFA’s Financial Management code will be reworked into a “leaner” document that retains key standards of good financial management.
28 Jun 19“Serious concerns” remain over the finances of Clackmannanshire Council, which faces a budget gap of £23m over the next three years.
18 Jun 19The demands on upper-tier authorities to deliver costly social care services will be more accurately reflected in the forthcoming shake-up of local government funding, MPs have heard.
14 Jun 19Decentralising the financial system could rebalance growth across the country - and help local authorities as they become increasingly reliant on business rates, suggest Ben Gardiner and Ron...
11 Jun 19Managers have a vital role to play in promoting day-to-day health and wellbeing at work and supporting a cultural shift that will benefit both individuals and the organisation, writes CIPFA’s...
6 Jun 19Councils’ increasing reliance on business rates is a “20th century solution”, the housing, communities and local government committee has been told.
4 Jun 19An equity fund, which has been haemorrhaging clients, has barred a county council from accessing its “deteriorating” investment.
29 May 19The BBC has named 11 English councils at risk of exhausting their reserves entirely by 2024 if they continue to raid them at current rates.
14 May 19Brexit money, cash for the Windrush generation and puppy smuggling. All in May’s edition of Numbers Game.
14 May 19There is a complete lack of transparency over the government’s handling of local authorities with governance issues, MPs have warned.
9 May 19Ensuring a diverse workforce will improve public financial management and foster creativity, writes Gillian Fawcett of Public Finance by Women
18 Apr 19The Competitions and Markets Authority’s proposals to partially break up the ‘big four’ accounting firms to increase competition “will have consequences” for local government, CIPFA has said.
11 Apr 19Significant sums of public money are at risk as financial controls within councils come under increasing strain, according to the public spending watchdog for Scottish local government.
29 Mar 19Northamptonshire County Council’s finances “remain fragile” due to a lack of robust reserves and require savings of £40m, its finance commissioner Brian Roberts has told PF.
26 Mar 19The Royal Bank of Scotland is planning to close down the last £1bn of its LOBO loan portfolio by the end of this year, The Guardian has reported.
20 Mar 19CIPFA is seeking views on guidance to steer local authorities through the “increasingly complex issues of public finance”.
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