Plans to localise business rates could end up with the government clawing back funds to pay down the deficit, a local government think-tank has warned.
In times of change and uncertainty, individuals’ performance can suffer. Your challenge as a manager in the public sector is to minimise the consequences of this and help all your team fulfil their...
Councils will not achieve the substantial savings needed over the next three years through either outsourcing or employee-owned mutuals, a Public Finance round table debate agreed this week.
Local government staff and civil servants will be barred from working full time for trade unions while taking a salary for their job, the government has announced.
The need for staff to pull together has never been more important as bigger workloads, tighter targets, redundancies and uncertainty take their toll. Pam Jones explains how to build teams that can...
The audit work of the outgoing Audit Commission will be outsourced in ten lots grouped in four English regions and valued at around £89.4m, it has been announced.
The abolition of the Audit Commission is going to change the shape of public sector audit forever but many questions are still unanswered. PF looks at what the future holds and talks exclusively to...
The tendering process to outsource millions of pounds worth of public sector audit contracts will aim to encourage new players to enter the market, Audit Commission bosses have told Public Finance
The coalition commitment to releasing ever more government figures is feeding the press’s reliance on data for stories. So what should the public sector do?
Times of change are always unsettling, so it is more important now than ever to make sure you are moving job for the right reasons. Ann McFadyen shows you how to look before you leap
Mark Lowcock is a permanent secretary with a difference. Not only is he a qualified accountant but his department's budget is actually rising. He tells PF how he is managing to cut costs while...
CIPFA CONFERENCE 2011 VIDEO INTERVIEW: CIPFA chief executive Steve Freer discusses the way local authority finance directors are handling their budgets; the future of council audit, backing plans to...
