Integration of health and social care will require significant additional upfront funding to be successful, and the reform is not likely to lead to savings in the short-term, an analysis by CIPFA has...
The Treasury still needs to learn lessons from the financial crash and must plan for a wide range of different crisis scenarios, a committee of MPs said today.
Council spending in England has been cut by almost a quarter on a per person basis since 2009/10, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The government’s council tax freeze has saved households in England £168 a year, but cost public services around £2.8bn, CIPFA’s annual survey and analysis has found.
Groups of local authorities should be given complete control over council tax, including the value of bands and the timing of revaluations, the Independent Commission on Local Government Finance has...
Public audit requires a different set of skills and experience from the private sector, writes Rob Whiteman. This is one of many issues that the new assurance arrangements fail to address
Local authority chief finance officers are becoming less confident about the ability of their organisations to continue providing services amid government funding cuts, a CIPFA poll has revealed.
Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement did not provide any explanation of how public services will be able to deliver cuts still to be made, CIPFA has said.