If the forthcoming government Spending Review was able to protect three key areas of local government funding, councils would be better placed to respond to a range of cost pressures
Little is understood about the impact of wider public sector cuts on people’s health. We need to build an evidence base to help guide spending decisions.
The new chair of the Public Accounts Committee has said the watchdog will scrutinise departmental plans after November’s Spending Review in an effort to tackle so-called cost shunting across the...
The new chair of the County Councils Network has called for the forthcoming Spending Review to put local authority finance on a more sustainable footing.
The government will only offer limited devolution to areas that do not adopt elected mayors, with places such as Cornwall needing to implement the reform if they want further powers, Treasury...
Views from the 2015 CIPFA CFO Summit which considered challenges for public services around the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review and the need for service transformation.
