Ken Lee, chair of CIPFA’s housing panel, says there are plenty of actions the government can take if it wants to send a positive message about social housing.
Westminster is “shamefully” ignoring local government because it is “submerged by the Brexit debate”, former head of the civil service Bob Kerslake has claimed.
Councils have long supplied schools with services from finance to catering. With market changes, they need to act to keep this income, says Richard Harries.
Ethics are the building blocks of professional practice. With financial probity hitting the headlines, CIPFA surveyed hundreds of staff, and found some alarming results. Vivienne Russell reports....
CIPFA head Rob Whiteman provides the first of our regular columns on fraud, looking at how countering this crime requires collaboration and should be a strategic priority.
Local government must transform, innovate and work together to cope with the pressures of increased need for services with less central funding, according to two major accounting bodies.
CIPFA’s proposed resilience index for English local authorities will be a “blunt instrument” that will do little to alleviate financial pressure, county chiefs have claimed.
The public sector is not widely adopting blockchain because of a lack of policies to support the technology, the director of a software company has told a conference.
Technology should be a focus for public service leaders and not just IT departments, local government minister Rishi Sunak told the CIPFA conference this morning.
Almost two thirds of finance professionals say they have come under pressure to act in an unethical way at some point in their careers, according to early findings from CIPFA’s ethics survey revealed...
Effective leadership and insightful risk management are needed to negotiate the challenges of rapid technological change in the public sector, according to CIPFA research released today.
While they can’t magic away risk or conjure up resources, effective audit committees are essential for local authority success, says CIPFA governance adviser Diana Melville.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has only a “shaky grasp” of the issues facing local authority finances, the Public Accounts Committee has claimed.
Central government will not financially abandon local authorities – even as grants are phased out in favour of business rate revenue, local government minister Rishi Sunak has promised PF.
