Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to balance the public finances by 2018 and said a Conservative government would not increase taxes to tackle the £25bn funding gap that still needs to be...
William Hague has said the Conservatives are ‘wholeheartedly committed’ to increasing the autonomy of Scotland and Wales, but indicated this must be matched with reforms to ensure that only English...
Government policies have put a rocket under over-inflated house prices while social housing’s share of the total stock has steadily fallen. So how do you rebalance the market?
Nearly two-thirds of people say that they have seen no real change in council services despite reductions in local authority funding as part of the coalition government’s deficit reduction plan, a...
Public servants must look beyond national borders and election cycles to meet the challenges of globalisation, the CIPFA conference heard from EY’s Uschi Schreiber.
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has called for an examination into the future of public audit following the abolition of the Audit Commission.
Spending cuts being imposed on councils mean that the statutory duties placed on town halls will need to be revisited, delegates at the CIPFA conference have heard.
There is little appetite among voters to pay higher taxes to support public services, and other options will be needed to pay for local government and the NHS in future, the CIPFA conference has...
The Public Finance are bringing you real-time updates from the last day of the conference via our live blog on July 3rd. You can also interact with your questions, comments and tweets. Use the...
CIPFA’s annual Tom Sowerby award for outstanding service to student education has been won by Paul Simpson, director of finance and procurement at Nottinghamshire County Council.
Local government staff need to engage in more ‘measured risk taking’, London Borough of Lewisham chief executive Barry Quirk has told today's CIPFA conference.
The austerity that followed the recession only hastened a crisis in public finances that would have happened anyway, polling expert Peter Kellner told the CIPFA conference.
The economic recovery has been led by household consumption but a ‘frothy’ housing market and poor trade and productivity statistics raise questions over long-term sustainability, CIPFA’s annual...
CIPFA president Mike Owen has urged political parties to avoid tempting voters with short-term policies at next May’s general election, but instead plan and budget for the medium to long term.
Councils in England face a £5.8bn funding gap over the next two years, and spending on adult social will tip councils into financial crisis if reforms are not successful, the Local Government...
Should public sector finance managers be more open with the public about the effects of cuts in services? Participants at a recent CIPFA roundtable debate on health and social care funding certainly...
CIPFA will be hosting an event at its Mansell Street offices on 3 November to mark 40 years since the publication of the Layfield report into local government finance, including contributions from...
CIPFA’s new president is said to be ‘fearless, but never reckless’, despite his enthusiasm for sports cars and speedboats. Mike Owen tells PF about his goals for the year ahead and...
Big-data analytics has been making a major impact on cities as far apart as New York and Baghdad, saving lives and money in the process. Now the latest stage in the information revolution looks set...
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