Councillors have reluctantly agreed to approve Nottingham City Council’s 2024-25 budget despite concerns over a lack of local power over decision-making.
Senior councillors have refused to recommend more than £20m of cuts at Nottingham City Council, potentially escalating a dispute with the government over funding and local decision-making.
Efforts to reduce budget pressures may have led to Nottingham City Council breaching regulations on the use of ringfenced income, an independent report has said.
A city council facing government intervention has said ministers should not appoint commissioners, because the budget gap leading to its Section 114 notice was driven by “external pressures” rather...
Concerns over the financial stability of Nottingham City Council following its Section 114 notice has prompted levelling up secretary Michael Gove to propose appointing commissioners.
The recent Section 114 at Nottingham City Council was due to “13 years of Conservative decline and failure” and not poor leadership, the authority’s leader has said following criticism from levelling...
Approval of a new combined authority in the East Midlands will give power over £4bn of funding and “bring lasting benefits” to the region, local leaders have said.
Weak financial controls and a “culture which is not focused upon compliance” contributed to Nottingham City Council’s unlawful spending of housing money, an independent report has concluded.
Historic under-resourcing of Nottingham City Council’s finance department has weakened the authority’s finance function and led to significant inconsistencies in budget forecasts, external auditors...
Crisis-hit Nottingham City Council has come out against government plans to appoint a commissioner to oversee the authority following unlawful spending, saying it has made “solid progress” on...
Nottingham City Council has called the government’s announcement it could step in to run some of the authority’s services “clearly disappointing”, saying it is already making improvements by itself.
Nottingham City Council will terminate a contract with a subsidiary company managing its housing stock, after an external investigation found it misspent millions of pounds of authority funding.
An accounting blunder saw Nottingham City Council mistakenly credit almost £16m of housing funding to its general fund rather than its housing revenue account, it has emerged.
Nottingham City Council’s internal audit department has criticised the authority’s procurement processes, after financial regulations were waived on more than 20 occasions.
Nottingham City Council has proposed more than £12.2m of new savings, to help manage a widening budget deficit next year, including closing multiple children’s centres.
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...
Nottingham City Council members have been warned that the use of reserves to balance its budget this year “is not recommended”, after a forecast £11m gap emerged.
