The executive director of the Centre for Public Scrutiny talks to Public Finance about the scrutiny challenge of devolution, plans for elected mayors and how to make local services more responsive
One way that public bodies are coping with shrinking budgets is by developing revenue-generating services, as Capita’s Chris Dobson highlights in this video interview
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...
Manchester is already thinking about how a range of taxes, including stamp duty and the climate change levy, could work locally, city council chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein told CIPFA delegates.
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...
Scotland’s finance minister John Swinney used his speech at today’s CIPFA conference to call for the Smith Commission’s agreements to be implemented in full in the upcoming Scotland Act.
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.
Scotland's deputy first minister talks to PF about the importance of service integration, the impact of funding cuts and Scotland's coming fiscal powers
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.
CIPFA members need to innovate in order to face up to unprecedented economic and policy challenges, incoming president John Matheson told the annual conference.
Pressure on resources is forcing the public sector to deliver the aligned services that people demand. CIPFA has developed tools to help shape this collaborative future
As the government prepares to devolve more powers to local areas, leaders and decision-makers in public services must ensure that accountability is as local as the delivery
CIPFA’s incoming president lays out his priorities, with aligning public services to make the money work harder at the heart of his innovative approach
CIPFA has joined with organisations including London Councils, Westminster Council and the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce to call for local government to retain more of business rates as part...
