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14 Jul 22
Culture is the “biggest thing” that needs to change to empower internal auditors in the public sector to make positive contributions to their organisations, according to speakers at Public Finance...
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14 Jul 22
Work to improve diversity and inclusion needs to be proactive and tackle the organisation’s culture rather than simply increase participation rates, Public Finance Live delegates were told.
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14 Jul 22
Genuine collaboration between local government, the voluntary and community sector and commercial sectors is key to ensure the successful delivery of integrated care – and ensuring better outcomes...
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13 Jul 22
Panellists at Public Finance Live agreed something needs to change to speed up audit opinions being issued on council accounts, but were unsure whether giving auditors a statutory deadline is the...
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13 Jul 22
Public sector organisations – as well as businesses in general – must continually strive for greater inclusion if they are to better serve their communities and service-users.
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13 Jul 22
Conservative leadership candidates risk missing the wider picture about the need to ‘level up’ the UK with their statements about tax cuts and shrinking the Whitehall wage bill, former education...
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10 Jul 19
Communities secretary James Brokenshire announced the government is to examine local authority financial reporting and auditing, as he gave a ministerial address at CIPFA’s annual conference today.
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9 Dec 15
Council spending on library services across England, Scotland and Wales was cut by £50m in 2014/15, leading to closure of more than 100 libraries, figures from CIPFA have revealed.
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10 Jul 15
London’s successful bid for the 2012 Olympics showed how the public sector can meet “huge challenges”, one of the key figures involved in the project told CIPFA’s annual...
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9 Jul 15
Former Treasury special adviser Julia Goldsworthy told CIPFA conference that the chancellor had delivered a ‘bold’ Budget, focusing on his key themes of lower taxes, lower welfare and...
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8 Jul 15
Council and housing association properties risk becoming the “A&E of housing”, a place for people who are in crisis, the CIPFA conference was told today.
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8 Jul 15
Sarah Howard has won this year’s Tom Sowerby award, presented at CIPFA’s annual conference in London.
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8 Jul 15
The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) has been presented with CIPFA’s annual Sir Harry Page Merit Award, given for work in public service accounting and...
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8 Jul 15
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has urged local councils to reach out to their communities to talk about the importance of health and prevention.
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17 Jun 15
Big debates now under way will change the face of Britain. But it’s easy to forget that devolution is about democracy too
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3 Jun 15
A pensions expert has called for the Treasury’s Whole of Government Accounts to include an estimate of future state pension payments after finding these could more than treble the UK’s...
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27 Mar 15
The former Head of Audit and Inspection at Scotland’s biggest local authority has taken top prize at the 2015 CIPFA Scotland Public Finance Awards.