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21 Mar 11
Central government needs more finance professionals in top posts, a Treasury minister told the CIPFA international conference last week.
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18 Mar 11
Budget cuts are leaving the public sector under-resourced, resulting in poor staff morale, according to a survey published today.
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18 Mar 11
Efforts to increase accuracy and transparency in public accounts depend on sustained lobbying by the accountancy profession to overcome politicians’ fears, the CIPFA international conference heard.
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16 Mar 11
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 132,000 over the whole of last year, cutting the workforce to just under 6.2 million, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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15 Mar 11
Abolishing the Audit Commission will save less than £10m a year, a fifth of the amount claimed by government, the spending watchdog's chiefs have told MPs
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14 Mar 11
Top earners in the public sector should be subject to performance-related pay but should not have their salaries capped, Will Hutton has recommended
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14 Mar 11
First Minister Alex Salmond is to seek a deal with Scotland's trade unions that would guarantee no compulsory redundancies across the public sector
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10 Mar 11
Today's Hutton report has failed to address widespread concern that the imminent rise in employee pension contributions will lead to a mass opt-out from the Local Government Pension Scheme
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9 Mar 11
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport 'salami-sliced' the budgets of its arm's-length bodies without calculating the financial consequences, a National Audit Office investigation has found
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9 Mar 11
Final salary pension schemes in the public sector should end and a cap be put on the amount taxpayers contribute, according to Lord Hutton’s review of pensions, published today.
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8 Mar 11
The Audit Commission overstretched its remit and placed too much burden on local authorities, which are now ready to take on elements of inspection themselves, MPs were told last night
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8 Mar 11
Ministers have launched a review of councils’ statutory duties, including the requirement to designate a chief finance (section 151) officer
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4 Mar 11
A union has called on the government to ‘leave public sector pensions alone’ following a poll revealing public support for current schemes.
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4 Mar 11
The savings available from better procurement of public sector IT contracts have largely been exhausted, industry experts are warning.
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3 Mar 11
There is an ‘air of unreality’ about the future cost assumptions of public sector pensions, MPs have been told.
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2 Mar 11
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants has said it is to leave the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies, citing the ‘diminishing relevance’ of membership of the...
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2 Mar 11
Lack of financial expertise at the highest levels of the civil service is jeopardising Whitehall's ability to devise effective spending cuts.
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1 Mar 11
As staff feel the impact of redundancies and a pay freeze, employers need to carve out a bit extra to make them feel valued. Duncan Brown shows how
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28 Feb 11
The chair of the Audit Commission has rebuked the government for delaying its abolition, sentencing the watchdog to a 'living death'
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23 Feb 11
Major doubts have been cast on the government's plans for a mass mutualisation of public services, with scepticism over both staff appetite for and the viability of the model
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22 Feb 11
More than 50,000 NHS jobs are to be axed, according to research published today.
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15 Feb 11
Council chief executives earned an average of £147,934 last year, according to the first analysis of senior staff pay in local government.
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14 Feb 11
Public sector spending cuts could lead to an exodus of graduates from regions outside the Southeast, impeding economic recovery, according to the Work Foundation.
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9 Feb 11
Treasury plans to increase employee contributions to public sector pensions risk ‘breaking’ the system by prompting a mass exodus of members, the chief of one of the UK’s major schemes has warned.
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9 Feb 11
Finance Secretary John Swinney has rejected claims that the Scottish Government failed to provide the UK Treasury with any detailed analysis of its case for full financial autonomy
21 Mar 11Central government needs more finance professionals in top posts, a Treasury minister told the CIPFA international conference last week.
2 Mar 11The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants has said it is to leave the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies, citing the ‘diminishing relevance’ of membership of the...
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