The largest growing area of fraud being detected or prevented by councils is business rates fraud, yet this represents only a fraction of the total, says CIPFA’s Marc McAuley.
Britain’s government has launched a club to help Latin American companies that invest in the country and will celebrate their contribution to the economy with a new award.
The chancellor has announced that assuming a Brexit deal is agreed and “uncertainty lifted”, he will launch a “full three-year spending review” before the summer break.
The relationship between ministers, accounting officers and civil servants is currently not working, the outgoing auditor general of UK’s spending watchdog has said in his last speech in the role.
A wide-reaching parliamentary inquiry is likely to be launched into local government finances, the chair of the housing, communities and local government select committee Clive Betts has revealed to...
Public services face years more of austerity unless the chancellor hands out billions of extra pounds at the Spending Review, an economic think-tank has warned.
Ministers have laid the foundations for a new era in council housebuilding and say it is up to authorities to deliver. What plans are afoot, and are councils ready to step up? Neil Merrick...
When hard times hit, it is invariably women who are worst affected. But gender budgeting can help target public resources more effectively, CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman argues.
The £35m of funding councils in England will share to help them cope with Brexit is only half of what the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government asked for.
An increasing number of major government projects risk going over budget because of the government’s preoccupation with Brexit, a think-tank has warned.
The government must lift the benefits freeze to stop increasing numbers of people falling into poverty, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation chief executive Campbell Robb.
Excessive staff turnover in the civil service is costing the taxpayer up to £74m a year in recruitment, training and lost productivity, according to a think-tank.
