Plans to “reinvent the NHS’ financial model” and turn it from a service treating sickness to one that truly makes people healthy form the basis of the government’s 10 Year Plan.
English councils hold the key to unlocking potential growth of £276bn if they are allowed genuine stewardship of their local economies, according to a study.
The ‘triple lock’ makes the state pension too expensive and unpredictable and ministers should replace it with a new target level and wider overhaul of the pensions system, a study has recommended.
Improving the “bureaucratic and labour-intensive” Spending Review process could lead to more effective public spending and even a less disillusioned public, a report from the Tony Blair Institute has...
The government’s employment support shake-up must take complex regional variations in capacity and need into account if it is to avoid making England’s North-South divide even worse, think-tank...
The government’s planned benefits system overhaul could cut welfare spending by £11bn a year when fully implemented – but the health-related benefits bill will still far exceed pre-pandemic levels,...
The Scottish Government has said it plans to shed thousands of public sector jobs as part of a package of measures to plug a projected annual budget gap of £4.7bn.
CIPFA chief executive Owen Mapley celebrated both Public Finance Live and his own first year in the office by pointing to a variety of initiatives that members can look forward to in the months ahead.
Fixing the English local government audit crisis for good could take “radical” ideas, and those involved in reform are willing to consider them, Public Finance Live heard.
Safeguards for standards and integrity become vital when officials cannot always be relied upon to do the right thing, delegates at Public Finance Live heard.
Three perspectives on the state and potential of England’s devolution journey kicked off the breakout session panels at this year’s PF Live in Birmingham.
Restricted budgets and difficult decision-making only increase how important it is to maintain good standards and governance in the public sector, Public Finance Live delegates were told.
The pressure on democracy is already finding its way to audit in some parts of the world, but audit has always known political pressure, Public Finance Live delegates heard.
The major challenges facing the world will only be overcome with the help of public finance professionals, new CIPFA president Sir Mark Lowcock said as he opened Public Finance Live in Birmingham.
A local government finance shake-up represents an encouraging opportunity to fix many of the sector’s longstanding issues, but experts have warned the proposals published thus far still lack...
The operational capability of those responsible for delivering frontline government services is “varied and often lacking in what matters most”, according to a report from the National Audit...
The government has been told it should do more to reform the “outdated and inadequate” way in which public money has traditionally been allocated, despite improvements in the Spending Review.
The scale of Woking Borough Council’s initial bailout will be finalised in September, the government said as it put rival proposals for redrawing local government boundaries in Surrey out to...
Hundreds of councils face financial precarity and the government is finally running out of time to do something about it, an influential group of MPs has warned.
