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...
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.
Public sector bodies will fail to create a diverse workforce without adequate funding and radical cultural changes, experts told delegates at Public Finance Live.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
