Public finance professionals are uniquely placed to give organisations the leadership, strategy and hope they need to keep up morale in the face of continued austerity, CIPFA chief executive Rob...
George Osborne’s Budget set a good direction on devolution and prevention through the sugar tax, but there are too many surprises and uncertainties for top marks.
Council tax in England is set to rise by an average of 3.1% next year, according to an analysis by CIPFA, but residents in London will only see a 0.6% average increase.
Finance professionals are working on a greater variety of activities and with more and more organisations as service provision becomes more complicated
Today we publish Trailblazers 2016, the latest edition of the Public Finance Top 50, designed to recognise and celebrate individuals who have been making waves in public finance
CIPFA has urged Scotland’s political parties to put the reform of local government finance at the top of their policy agendas for May’s Holyrood election and beyond, in the wake of a cross-party...
Outcome-based commissioning could help make some public services more efficient as well as help develop new models of provision, experts at a CIPFA roundtable event have said.
A joint CIPFA-HFMA survey has found that opportunities presented by the Better Care Fund have been embraced enthusiastically. However, it needs clearer and simpler governance and monitoring...
Council spending on library services across England, Scotland and Wales was cut by £50m in 2014/15, leading to closure of more than 100 libraries, figures from CIPFA have revealed.
The flagship government project to bring health and social care funding together is being hindered by red tape that must be tackled if services are to be integrated, a CIPFA report has found.
CIPFA has sounded a note of caution over government plans to establish six “British Wealth Funds” by encouraging Local Government Pension Scheme funds to pool their assets and increase...
Half of council finance directors are less confident in the ability to deliver savings than they were a year ago, a CIPFA survey ahead of this week’s Spending Review has found.
The consequences of greater devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament was the hot topic at CIPFA Scotland’s Directors of Finance Annual Public Finance Debate
Milton Keynes is a leader in housebuilding, job creation and population growth, but these trends are not without challenges for council chief Carole Mills
The West Midlands Pension Fund is the first public sector body to be awarded CIPFA’s Governance Mark of Excellence, which recognises excellence across seven core governance principles.
A leading police and crime commissioner has hit out at the Home Office efforts to change the police funding formula, saying the process is “flawed” and happening too fast.
