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25 Oct 21
The Department for Work and Pensions’ Cyber Resilience Centre prevented £1.7bn of organised fraud against Universal Credit during the first nine months of Covid-19.
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18 Oct 21
A council is to use £10.5m of reserves earmarked for tackling Covid-19 to slash the amount of capital borrowing needed to fund services under special arrangements approved earlier this year by...
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18 Oct 21
More than half of public services examined in CIPFA’s 2021 Performance Tracker, published today, are suffering backlogs due to Covid-19.
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21 Sep 21
The UK government borrowed more than expected in August, while inflation pushed up interest payments.
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13 Aug 21
Two companies that targeted 41 councils with fraudulent Covid-19 grant claims have been wound up after High Court hearings.
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12 Aug 21
Northern Ireland’s Department of Health is facing questions over its accounting treatment of millions of pounds that might otherwise have been redistributed to other departments.
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27 Jul 21
It is too early to withdraw extraordinary monetary policy support, despite high inflation and growing employment, a Bank of England official has said.
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25 Jul 21
Poor quality assessments by departmental accounting officers have reduced the value for money of government spending during the Covid-19 pandemic, a Public Accounts Committee report has found.
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16 Jul 21
A worst case scenario with repeated lockdowns and a slow economic recovery would leave a county council in southern England with a shortfall of £220.3m from next year until 2024-25, the...
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30 Jun 21
Government departments lack urgency in their efforts to measure fraud and error relating to Covid-19 spending, according to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.
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8 Jun 21
The cost of government responses to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland topped £6bn as both Stormont and Westminster worked to fight the health and economic crises caused by the virus.
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1 Jun 21
Covid-19 led to UK healthcare spending reaching £269bn in 2020, a fifth higher than the previous year’s figure, according to Office for National Statistics data.
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27 May 21
Scottish councils are at risk of becoming financially unsustainable without long-term funding settlements, the sector’s spending watchdog has warned.
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21 May 21
Scottish colleges recorded growing deficits in 2019-20 but the full effects of Covid-19 are yet to be felt, according to Audit Scotland.
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19 May 21
The health service and local government both need long-term financial sustainability if the government is to successfully respond to the next national emergency, the National Audit Office has...
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13 May 21
The factors that led to the UK’s drastic economic contraction in 2020 should allow one of the strongest recoveries in Europe, a report has found.
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30 Apr 21
As Covid-19 vaccination rolls out and employees begin returning to the office, public sector leaders will face a new challenge – successfully reconnecting their temporarily disparate teams.
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29 Apr 21
The High Court has dismissed an attempt to allow council meetings in England to be held online past 7 May when existing Covid-19 legislation expires.
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14 Apr 21
The Welsh Government and NHS responded well to the challenges procuring personal protective equipment during the pandemic, a spending watchdog found.
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29 Mar 21
The procurement challenges ushered in by Covid-19 will not go away even if lower infection rates allow society to get back to some degree of normality, says Mohamed Hans.
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25 Mar 21
Covid-19 grants for businesses risk being wasted after the government “moved the goalposts” for funding, a Section 151 officer has told PF.
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19 Mar 21
Adult social care services will receive £341m to continue to keep vulnerable people safe from Covid-19 even as restrictions begin to ease and the vaccine rollout continues.
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9 Mar 21
Councils still face a funding gap of more than £600m this financial year due to Covid-19, despite huge government support for the sector, the National Audit Office has found.
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3 Mar 21
Rishi Sunak has once again announced billions of pounds of spending as the government attempts to tackle the economic crisis caused by Covid-19, but has drawn criticism for failing to adequately...
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15 Feb 21
Covid-19 has left councils more than £1bn short of their expected council tax revenues. But what explains the wide variation among collection levels between different authorities? Kate Ogden, local...
25 Oct 21The Department for Work and Pensions’ Cyber Resilience Centre prevented £1.7bn of organised fraud against Universal Credit during the first nine months of Covid-19.
18 Oct 21A council is to use £10.5m of reserves earmarked for tackling Covid-19 to slash the amount of capital borrowing needed to fund services under special arrangements approved earlier this year by...
18 Oct 21More than half of public services examined in CIPFA’s 2021 Performance Tracker, published today, are suffering backlogs due to Covid-19.
21 Sep 21The UK government borrowed more than expected in August, while inflation pushed up interest payments.
13 Aug 21Two companies that targeted 41 councils with fraudulent Covid-19 grant claims have been wound up after High Court hearings.
12 Aug 21Northern Ireland’s Department of Health is facing questions over its accounting treatment of millions of pounds that might otherwise have been redistributed to other departments.
27 Jul 21It is too early to withdraw extraordinary monetary policy support, despite high inflation and growing employment, a Bank of England official has said.
25 Jul 21Poor quality assessments by departmental accounting officers have reduced the value for money of government spending during the Covid-19 pandemic, a Public Accounts Committee report has found.
16 Jul 21A worst case scenario with repeated lockdowns and a slow economic recovery would leave a county council in southern England with a shortfall of £220.3m from next year until 2024-25, the...
30 Jun 21Government departments lack urgency in their efforts to measure fraud and error relating to Covid-19 spending, according to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.
8 Jun 21The cost of government responses to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland topped £6bn as both Stormont and Westminster worked to fight the health and economic crises caused by the virus.
1 Jun 21Covid-19 led to UK healthcare spending reaching £269bn in 2020, a fifth higher than the previous year’s figure, according to Office for National Statistics data.
27 May 21Scottish councils are at risk of becoming financially unsustainable without long-term funding settlements, the sector’s spending watchdog has warned.
21 May 21Scottish colleges recorded growing deficits in 2019-20 but the full effects of Covid-19 are yet to be felt, according to Audit Scotland.
19 May 21The health service and local government both need long-term financial sustainability if the government is to successfully respond to the next national emergency, the National Audit Office has...
13 May 21The factors that led to the UK’s drastic economic contraction in 2020 should allow one of the strongest recoveries in Europe, a report has found.
30 Apr 21As Covid-19 vaccination rolls out and employees begin returning to the office, public sector leaders will face a new challenge – successfully reconnecting their temporarily disparate teams.
29 Apr 21The High Court has dismissed an attempt to allow council meetings in England to be held online past 7 May when existing Covid-19 legislation expires.
29 Mar 21The procurement challenges ushered in by Covid-19 will not go away even if lower infection rates allow society to get back to some degree of normality, says Mohamed Hans.
25 Mar 21Covid-19 grants for businesses risk being wasted after the government “moved the goalposts” for funding, a Section 151 officer has told PF.
19 Mar 21Adult social care services will receive £341m to continue to keep vulnerable people safe from Covid-19 even as restrictions begin to ease and the vaccine rollout continues.
3 Mar 21Rishi Sunak has once again announced billions of pounds of spending as the government attempts to tackle the economic crisis caused by Covid-19, but has drawn criticism for failing to adequately...
15 Feb 21Covid-19 has left councils more than £1bn short of their expected council tax revenues. But what explains the wide variation among collection levels between different authorities? Kate Ogden, local...
