Newly published draft statements of accounts for three financial years will contribute to “more robust” reporting in the future at Woking Borough Council, its political finance lead has said.
A minister told Woking Borough Council it should review its mammoth capital programme in 2021 while rejecting the authority’s request for financial support.
Woking is targeting becoming “one of the most improved councils in the country” through its improvement and recovery plan – a draft of which has now been published.
Woking was lent millions of pounds of public money just two days before the government published a damning review into its finances and sent in commissioners, leading to accusations of a “lack of any...
The Local Government Association has defended its corporate peer challenge process after being questioned over a 2019 report praising the approach that led Woking Borough Council to a financial...
The high-profile failures of councils in Woking and Thurrock demonstrate the importance of a strong and well-understood local audit system, which has arguably been lost, two senior voices in the...
The council’s additional minimum revenue provision this year – after being under-calculated for more than a decade – is nearly six times its core funding.
