A unitary authority has unveiled plans to spend more than £100m on slashing its office space by three quarters, enabled by a rise in home working following Covid-19.
A Home Counties council is set to close of two of its offices and pay staff working from home a bonus of £150 a year under plans expected to save it up to £200,000 a year.
A London council says that it could face a shortfall of up to £50m between its Covid-19 spending and the money from central government to pay for the pandemic response
UK government schemes to help with energy efficiency in homes need long-term commitment to allow the supply chain to respond, a procurement expert said.
More auditor interventions through statutory recommendations and public interest reports to local authorities are likely to occur in coming years, an audit expert has warned.
The government is set to reduce the amount of funding pots allocated to councils through competitive bidding, communities secretary Robert Jenrick has promised.
Fundamental reform of UK local authority finances is likely to be delayed further by up to two years, to assess Covid-19’s impact on local taxation, according to CIPFA chief executive Rob...
Warwickshire County Council has approved plans to borrow up to £130m over the next five years, which it intends to pass on to businesses to help their long-term recovery from Covid-19.
CIPFA has praised Slough Borough Council’s finance director on the decision to publish a section 114, freezing all non-essential spending as the authority attempts to balance its budget.
The London Borough of Croydon may need to write-off up to £52m in loans to wholly-owned housing firm Brick by Brick, after rejecting the sale of the company.
Public Finance magazine and Workday recently brought together a group of senior public sector finance leaders for a roundtable discussion exploring ways in which government departments can use agile...
The Municipal Bonds Agency – aimed at providing cheap borrowing to local authorities – faces doubts over its future after racking up pre-tax losses of £650,000 last year.
Eight struggling local authorities will be subject to financial healthchecks by CIPFA as they await approval on £72.5m of government support, ministers have announced.
An investment company set up to buy commercial property on behalf of two councils has suffered cumulative losses of more than £12.5m since it launched four years ago.
Powys County Council has agreed to wind down a housing maintenance joint-venture next year, halfway through the original contract term, and insource the services.
Government departments lack urgency in their efforts to measure fraud and error relating to Covid-19 spending, according to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.
Uttlesford District Council is applying for a credit rating to allow it access to a greater range of borrowing to fund its multi-million programme of out-of-borough commercial investments.
The government has proposed a three-year valuation period for business rates, alongside changes to the appeals process, in a bid to make the system more effective.
Leicestershire County Council will ask its schools to transfer £2m of funding to help meet a burgeoning special educational needs deficit, which presents a “significant risk” to the authority.
