A further £760m hit to Birmingham City Council’s finances from a 2012 court ruling means the authority needs to “take all necessary steps” to cut spending and avoid issuing a Section 114 notice.
The government will fail to reduce regional inequalities without matching the “serious level” of money spent developing East Germany following unification, an expert told Public Finance Live...
Fraud investigators will be unable to successfully tackle international money laundering and corruption without a significant increase in funding, delegates at Public Finance Live were told.
The failure of public bodies to adequately maintain their properties represents a ticking time bomb for local authorities, an expert told delegates at Public Finance live.
A “failure of management oversight and gross incompetence” within Renfrewshire Council contributed to the construction of a school as much as three times too small, an independent review has found.
Covid-19’s continued impact on passenger numbers led to the council company that owns Luton Airport making more than £230m of losses in its most recently published accounts, but the council has...
The lack of internal scrutiny ahead of Thurrock Council’s collapse proves the importance of councillor training and financial understanding, experts have said.
Local councils need ‘radical change’ to keep delivering for the people of Scotland, according to a recent report from the Accounts Commission. So, what about adopting a rights-based approach to...
A damning independent report on Thurrock Council’s investments highlights the risk of these strategies and the negative impact on services, CIPFA has warned.
Thurrock Council will need to cut services back to near the statutory minimum after “repeated failures” to manage major investment and regeneration projects led to substantial losses, a long-awaited...
Dwindling reserves and the need to make more than £50m of cuts to balance the 2023-24 budget have put Shropshire Council in an “extremely challenging” position, the Local Government Association...
The council’s additional minimum revenue provision this year – after being under-calculated for more than a decade – is nearly six times its core funding.
Administrators have begun selling the assets of a solar investment company to which Thurrock Council lent more than £650m, in order to repay the company’s debts.
