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.
City of Edinburgh Council has failed to identify the potential costs of exiting emergency Covid-19 traffic reduction schemes, according to its internal auditors.
Rental arrears for properties owned by Liverpool City Council almost doubled last year, as Covid-19 impacted on commercial tenants’ ability to cover payments.
The leader of a local authority forced to spend thousands of pounds hiring facilities to hold Covid-19-safe meetings has called on the government to rethink its decision to effectively ban...
The average cost of workers leaving the public sector in England rose last year, despite Covid-19 reducing the number of redundancies, according to data compiled by local authorities.
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.
Public sector unions will consult members on potential industrial action over a 3% pay rise from NHS workers, which has been branded “inadequate and underwhelming”.
The government will allocate a further £56m to tram and light rail services in England to help keep services running through the Covid-19 recovery period.
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...
A unitary authority has unveiled plans to spend more than £100m on slashing its office space by three quarters, enabled by a rise in home working following Covid-19.
A Home Counties council is set to close of two of its offices and pay staff working from home a bonus of £150 a year under plans expected to save it up to £200,000 a year.
Hala Audi, chief executive of the Trinity Challenge, discussed big data and working across boundaries at last week’s Public Finance Live conference. We caught up with her to hear about how her...
A London council says that it could face a shortfall of up to £50m between its Covid-19 spending and the money from central government to pay for the pandemic response
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...
The government has failed to budget for £30bn of additional costs resulting from Covid-19 over the next three years, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
Warwickshire County Council has approved plans to borrow up to £130m over the next five years, which it intends to pass on to businesses to help their long-term recovery from Covid-19.
David Good and Patricia Andrews Fearon from the University of Cambridge explain how a ‘zero-sum’ approach can hamper an organisation’s ability to flourish.
Powys County Council has agreed to wind down a housing maintenance joint-venture next year, halfway through the original contract term, and insource the services.
