Wirral Council has approved a financial recovery plan which includes suspending a planned £5m investment to create a community bank, following a critical government-commissioned review.
The government should not provide additional financial flexibilites to Peterborough City Council unless it offloads at least £43.5m of property, according to a review by CIPFA.
Members at some larger local authorities are keen for staff to return to office working to help mitigate losses to regional economies, CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman told delegates to his...
CIPFA has praised Slough Borough Council’s finance director on the decision to publish a section 114, freezing all non-essential spending as the authority attempts to balance its budget.
Guidance on the environmental, social and governance of local authority counterparties will be included in the risk management section of the revised Treasury Management Code, in a switch of approach.
The government's preference for providing grants through competitive bidding creates a vicious cycle that hurts authorities most in need of the money, says CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman.
Government proposals on local audit have gained a qualified welcome from the sector – but questions still remain, say experts – PF rounds up the reaction.
Ahead of the first full year of compliance with the Financial Management Code, Joanna Pitt, local government policy manager at CIPFA, gives a run down of the new guidance.
UK councils’ efforts to tackle grant fraud are being hampered by the reallocation of resources to support efforts to respond to Covid-19, according to analysis from CIPFA.
Closer working between external and internal auditors can help achieve better value for money, according to CIPFA advisers Diana Melville and Ellen Millington.
Help is at hand for local authorities looking to increase their anti-fraud capabilities, says Heidi Loren de Sousa, manager of CIPFA's Counter Fraud Apprenticeship programme.
CIPFA is consulting on proposed strengthening training for treasury management staff, following the introduction of legislation allowing public bodies to use more complex financial tools.
The government must allocate resources as soon as possible to enable councils and auditors to implement the findings of the Redmond review, says Rob Whiteman.
The new local government audit body proposed by the Redmond Review should produce an annual report on the whole local government sector, CIFPA has said.
Section 151 officers face a 'tipping point’ requiring tough decisions on whether to follow London Borough of Croydon in issuing a section 114 notice, CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman has told MPs.
The upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review must allocate funding to address record public service backlogs, CIPFA and the Institute for Government have warned.
Sir Tony Redmond’s recently published review ticks most – if not all - the boxes needed to improve local authority audit, says Diana Melville, CIPFA’s governance adviser.
