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13 Dec 19
CIPFA has unveiled its long-awaited Financial Resilience Index, revealing one in 10 councils in England are showing signs that their finances are at risk.
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13 Dec 19
The government has announced major capital spending plans for the NHS in recent months, but will they offer a sufficient health boost? Alison Moore reports.
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6 Dec 19
There is “still some way to go” to improve financial management at Northamptonshire County Council, an independent review has said.
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15 Nov 19
CIPFA has today issued guidance to advise local authorities on what is expected of them when they invest in property.
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10 Oct 19
CIPFA has launched its first Financial Management Code for nearly 15 years.
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13 Sep 19
The UK government must do more to ensure departments better understand how to spend aid more efficiently, a watchdog has found.
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23 Aug 19
Aberdeen City Council has taken out two loans from the Public Works Loan Board, bringing its total debt to the body to over £400m.
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16 Aug 19
Crisis-hit Northamptonshire County Council is facing more financial hardship as its projected deficit more than tripled in six months.
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7 Aug 19
Auditors have warned that the financial sustainability of NHS Lothian remains a “significant risk”, with a budget gap of £26m this year expected to spiral beyond £80m by 2021-22.
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4 Jul 19
Pivotal choices loom on local government funding but if we don’t address what we expect from our councils we risk a system that fails to meet needs, says the IFS’ David Phillips.
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4 Jul 19
Northamptonshire County Council has reported a budget underspend - as the prime minister tells MPs she will seek to reorganise the local authority “as soon as practical”.
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2 Jul 19
Ileana Steccolini, who is speaking at the CIPFA conference on 10 July, looks at whether organisational capacities make a difference to local government financial resilience.
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28 Jun 19
CIPFA’s Financial Management code will be reworked into a “leaner” document that retains key standards of good financial management.
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20 Jun 19
Scottish councils have defended their use of funds set aside for emergencies to pay for essential services after new figures showed general fund reserves would dip below £1bn next year.
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14 Jun 19
Financial performance among health providers has “improved significantly” but the sector is still too reliant on one-off efficiency savings, according to the latest data.
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6 Jun 19
Councils are concerned that a National Audit Office investigation into commercial property investment will criticise them, public finance experts have told PF.
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30 May 19
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea made a series of multi-million pound property deals while cutting costs on Grenfell Tower’s refurbishments, research has found.
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29 May 19
The BBC has named 11 English councils at risk of exhausting their reserves entirely by 2024 if they continue to raid them at current rates.
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29 May 19
Public sector deficits were highest in devolved regions in the financial year ending in 2018, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
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17 Apr 19
In dealing with the increased risks that accompany declining budgets, escalating demand and political uncertainty, public sector organisations across the UK have proven to be incredibly adaptable and...
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2 Apr 19
Public finance professionals have a vital role to play in building trust and resilience, the Scottish Government public finance minister has told CIPFA members.
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29 Mar 19
Northamptonshire County Council’s finances “remain fragile” due to a lack of robust reserves and require savings of £40m, its finance commissioner Brian Roberts has told PF.
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20 Mar 19
CIPFA is seeking views on guidance to steer local authorities through the “increasingly complex issues of public finance”.
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18 Mar 19
Handing public contracts to Interserve despite profit warnings was the “height of irresponsibility”, a union has said.
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22 Feb 19
Councillors have approved Northamptonshire County Council’s 4.99% council tax rise, the local authority has announced.