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25 Apr 22
Liverpool City Council failed to track whether money it paid to local charities from a £1m community fund was meeting its objectives, it has emerged.
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31 Mar 22
The decision by the mayor of Middlesbrough Council to hold undocumented meetings with contractors on a £21m construction project was not in line with the authority’s constitution, according to...
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24 Mar 22
CIPFA’s Sarah Sheen and ICAEW’s Oliver Simms explain how working in local audit brings substantial benefits, including the opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives.
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11 Mar 22
A spending watchdog has advised a Welsh authority to seek ministerial assistance after continued governance problems meant it failed to make progress on statutory recommendations.
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18 Feb 22
Senior local government expert Max Caller is set to lead a governance review commissioned by Northumberland County Council into senior officer and member conduct.
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18 Jan 22
The government has announced its intention to install commissioners at a West Midlands local authority, with powers to dismiss and appoint senior officers, including the section 151 officer.
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6 Jan 22
Luton Borough Council is set to establish a new body to provide oversight and advice on the authority’s commercial companies and joint ventures.
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2 Nov 21
A government-appointed improvement board has voiced worries about the Nottingham City Council's timetable for adopting a medium term financial strategy, which is seen as key to delivering financial...
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29 Oct 21
A critical report from CIPFA has found governance failures over a district heating network project run by the London Borough of Sutton.
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13 Oct 21
The behaviour of senior officers at Thanet Borough Council fell below “the standard expected on a number of occasions”, with the cost of resulting investigations putting the authority’s financial...
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23 Sep 21
An administrative error at a London borough saw more than £700,000 of incorrect payments made to businesses and a social care provider, according to external auditors.
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20 Sep 21
Thanet District Council’s leader has requested central government support to improve governance at the authority, following disciplinary issues and legal disputes.
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6 Sep 21
Nottingham City Council’s scrutiny of wholly-owned companies remains “superficial and inadequate” a year after its auditors raised similar concerns, according to an independent report.
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31 Aug 21
Coventry City Council is set to create a shareholder committee to manage commercial investments, in a bid to avoid financial difficulties experienced by some authorities.
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13 Aug 21
Westminster City Council’s management of an over-budget local attraction which has become a national laughing stock has been branded ‘as an exercise in unaccountability’ by the authority's...
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10 Aug 21
City of Edinburgh Council has failed to identify the potential costs of exiting emergency Covid-19 traffic reduction schemes, according to its internal auditors.
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27 Jul 21
Internal auditors have criticised governance at a South Wales council after it awarded a contract to a charity linked to members.
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26 Jul 21
A borough council failed to carry out proper investigations before spending £100m on a shopping centre and surrounding properties in its area, according to an independent report.
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30 Jun 21
Eight struggling local authorities will be subject to financial healthchecks by CIPFA as they await approval on £72.5m of government support, ministers have announced.
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22 Jun 21
CIPFA has praised Birmingham City Council’s financial management, just two years after a report criticised the arrangements at the authority.
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1 Jun 21
A “prevalent, negative culture” at Nottingham City Council in which officers regularly fail to comply with processes and rules has drawn criticism from its internal auditors.
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18 May 21
New government guidance will aim to improve reporting and transparency by Local Government Pension Scheme pools to bring them into line with international funds, a civil servant said today.
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11 May 21
Slough Borough Council did not understand the risks of low reserve levels, a damning report has said.
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8 Mar 21
All council staff have an important part to play in tackling governance risks, according to think-tank Localis and the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny as they launched new guidance for officers.
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1 Feb 21
The government has “no other credible alternative” to granting the London Borough of Croydon a capitalisation direction to ease its financial woes, a review it commissioned has concluded.