The local government audit crisis means is compounding local government’s financial difficulties, says Public Accounts Committee chair, Dame Meg Hillier.
The brilliance of the diagnosis contained in the government's 'levelling up' white paper only serves to highlight the inadequacy of the policy prescriptions that follow, says ...
The average amount of gross external borrowing by local authorities in England fell in 2020-21, as borrowing restrictions and Covid-19 impacted the sector, according to CIPFA's latest update of its...
Edinburgh City Council is set to allocate up to £9.25m per-year from 2024 to fund the expansion of its tram network, following reduced fare income from Covid-19.
Crisis-hit Slough Borough Council has asked central govenment for £270m of financing flexibilities to help address historic deficits and reduce debts next year.
The government should ban local authorities from borrowing unless they have sufficient plans to make regular repayments of debt and interest, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
External auditors for an East Midlands authority will review financial reporting arrangements after identifying fraudulent payments in the council's 2019-20 financial statements.
A Welsh council breached procurement laws on two occasions over a waste management contract with a subsidiary company, a spending watchdog has concluded.
A borough council paid a social care provider £1.2m more than it was owed, due to a “lack of a common understanding of roles and responsibilities”, according to an internal audit.
London Borough of Croydon failed to ensure it was acting lawfully over an agreement with its housing subsidiary Brick by Brick on a major regeneration project, auditors have found.
A former director of commercial and income generation for South Somerset District Council was sacked by the authority after allegations she used authority staff and resources to work on a...
External auditors are set to qualify a London borough's statement of accounts for 2018-19 and 2019-20 on a number of grounds, including a failure to consolidate financial statements of...
A senior consultant at CIPFA is set to take over as interim section 151 officer at Peterborough City Council, as the authority seeks financial stability.
A housing subsidiary to which Cambridgeshire County Council has loaned £114m is at risk of failing to deliver on its business case, according to an independent report.
The value of two retail investments made by Surrey County Council in 2017 has plummeted by tens of millions of pounds – to less than half of the original purchase price – due to Covid-19.
Spelthorne District Council has voted not to reimpose a moratorium on high-rise housing development that delayed its own affordable housing programme, costing it more than £1m.
Five payments providers have been fined a combined £33m for "illegal cartel behaviour" that reduced choice for councils buying pre-paid cards used to distribute welfare payments to the...
Collectively, councils were over-compensated by central government for the financial impact of Covid-19. But the withdrawal of support means tougher times lie ahead, says David Phillips from the...