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9 May 11
Public sector pay is still rising faster than in the private sector, with hourly wages for state workers now more than a third ahead.
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6 May 11
Council budgets throughout England might be reopened following a change of political control at many local authorities after the elections, a think-tank has said
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5 May 11
Swingeing cuts mean it's not a barrel of laughs at the 'Ministry of Fun' any more. But the show will go on at the Department for Culture. Media...
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4 May 11
The local government grants system will need to be reformed if councils are given back control of local business rates, the Local Government Association says
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3 May 11
NHS foundation trusts have warned that they would struggle to find extra efficiency savings and some would close
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27 Apr 11
The Audit Commission has been lambasted for wasting tens of thousands of pounds of public money on head-hunters amid fresh allegations of profligacy
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15 Apr 11
The head of Scotland's local authorities today unleashed a scathing attack on political party leaders, accusing them of treating council services and jobs as ammunition for the Holyrood election...
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13 Apr 11
Workforce experts have asked the government to carry out a comprehensive audit of public sector job cuts to try to settle arguments between forecasters.
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6 Apr 11
The States of Guernsey is set to embed the six principles of good governance in its work, after an audit report found serious deficiencies and lack of value for money
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6 Apr 11
Take-home pay continues to rise more in the public sector than in the private sector, according to an analysis of pay packets.
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6 Apr 11
Almost all English local authorities are slashing senior and middle management costs to help balance their budgets, but libraries and Sure Start centres are also in the line of fire, according to a...
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5 Apr 11
The Department for International Development must tighten its counter-fraud measures as its work extends into less stable countries, auditors have said
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5 Apr 11
All local NHS commissioning consortiums should have both a finance director and a chief executive, MPs have recommended
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4 Apr 11
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has had its accounts for 2009/10 qualified because it failed to include the finances of two associated bodies in them
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4 Apr 11
Staff cuts are inevitable throughout the public sector. But research shows that the way redundancies are undertaken has a greater effect on employees than the job losses themselves. John Marsh...
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4 Apr 11
The National Assembly for Wales is to ask the police to probe the handling of Wales Audit Office accounts by former auditor general Jeremy Colman
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1 Apr 11
A local government think-tank has called for citizens to be given a leading role in the audit regime that follows the abolition of the Audit Commission
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1 Apr 11
As the government embarks on radical reform of the welfare system, how is the Department for Work and Pensions' finance director coping with the changes? Hunada Nouss tells PF about bringing...
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31 Mar 11
Schools need to re-examine their use of teachers and teaching assistants if they are to meet the coming financial challenges, the Audit Commission has said
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30 Mar 11
The government today published a consultation on its plans for local authority public audit following the abolition of the Audit Commission
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29 Mar 11
Whitehall departments grappling with spending cuts could learn from how the Foreign & Commonwealth Office dealt with a sudden shortfall, according to government auditors
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23 Mar 11
Chancellor George Osborne has announced the creation of 21 new enterprise zones, in a Budget that he promised would spark growth and support business
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21 Mar 11
Two major development projects in Scotland are to be funded using Tax Increment Financing, which allows councils to borrow against future gains in business rate income
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21 Mar 11
Unions have questioned the independence of the public sector pay review bodies after they failed to challenge government recommendations on pay rises.
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21 Mar 11
The National Audit Office plans to issue comparative data about the performance of public bodies, comptroller and auditor general Amyas Morse told last week’s CIPFA international conference.