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18 Sep 18
Surrey County Council must “act now” to make sure it has enough reserves to plug its predicted budget gap of £94m by 2019-20, CIPFA has said.
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17 Sep 18
Westminster is “shamefully” ignoring local government because it is “submerged by the Brexit debate”, former head of the civil service Bob Kerslake has claimed.
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6 Sep 18
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.
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5 Sep 18
Consultations on changes to local authorities’ accounting code include a substantial change to practice around leases, says CIPFA's Sarah Sheen.
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4 Sep 18
CIPFA’s chief executive has said the organisation is “blown away” by the scale and quality of responses to its financial resilience index proposal.
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3 Sep 18
Charities have been reprimanded for failing to use their accounts and annual reports to communicate clearly and transparently with the public.
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3 Sep 18
Almost 60% of public sector finance professionals have come under pressure to act unethically at least once in their career, a CIPFA survey has found.
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3 Sep 18
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....
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28 Aug 18
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.
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9 Aug 18
CIPFA has set out a number of key principles to define the role of section 151 officers in local enterprise partnerships.
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2 Aug 18
Councils face a race against the clock to prepare for Brexit, the chair of CIPFA’s Brexit Advisory Commission for Public Services has told PF.
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30 Jul 18
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.
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19 Jul 18
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.
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13 Jul 18
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.
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12 Jul 18
Negative aspects of commercialisation could be avoided with more scrutiny of failures, a consultant told the CIPFA conference on Wednesday.
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12 Jul 18
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.
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12 Jul 18
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...
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11 Jul 18
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.
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11 Jul 18
CIPFA has a great opportunity to “flip the negative narrative” and rebuild trust in public services, the institute’s new president said this morning.
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10 Jul 18
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.
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5 Jul 18
Jon Roberts has taken over as head of assurance at Grant Thornton where he will oversee the strategic direction of all the firm’s audit work.
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5 Jul 18
Incoming CIPFA president Sarah Howard shares her passions for public services and all things Pre-Raphaelite with Vivienne Russell.
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4 Jul 18
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.
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4 Jul 18
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.
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2 Jul 18
CIPFA conference returns to Bournemouth and the South West next week. Neil Merrick takes a look at some of the opportunities and challenges facing this beautiful but sometimes neglected region....
18 Sep 18Surrey County Council must “act now” to make sure it has enough reserves to plug its predicted budget gap of £94m by 2019-20, CIPFA has said.
17 Sep 18Westminster is “shamefully” ignoring local government because it is “submerged by the Brexit debate”, former head of the civil service Bob Kerslake has claimed.
6 Sep 18Councils have long supplied schools with services from finance to catering. With market changes, they need to act to keep this income, says Richard Harries.
5 Sep 18Consultations on changes to local authorities’ accounting code include a substantial change to practice around leases, says CIPFA's Sarah Sheen.
4 Sep 18CIPFA’s chief executive has said the organisation is “blown away” by the scale and quality of responses to its financial resilience index proposal.
3 Sep 18Charities have been reprimanded for failing to use their accounts and annual reports to communicate clearly and transparently with the public.
3 Sep 18Almost 60% of public sector finance professionals have come under pressure to act unethically at least once in their career, a CIPFA survey has found.
3 Sep 18Ethics 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....
28 Aug 18CIPFA 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.
9 Aug 18CIPFA has set out a number of key principles to define the role of section 151 officers in local enterprise partnerships.
2 Aug 18Councils face a race against the clock to prepare for Brexit, the chair of CIPFA’s Brexit Advisory Commission for Public Services has told PF.
30 Jul 18Local 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.
19 Jul 18CIPFA’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.
13 Jul 18The 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.
12 Jul 18Negative aspects of commercialisation could be avoided with more scrutiny of failures, a consultant told the CIPFA conference on Wednesday.
12 Jul 18Technology should be a focus for public service leaders and not just IT departments, local government minister Rishi Sunak told the CIPFA conference this morning.
11 Jul 18Effective 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.
11 Jul 18CIPFA has a great opportunity to “flip the negative narrative” and rebuild trust in public services, the institute’s new president said this morning.
10 Jul 18While 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.
5 Jul 18Jon Roberts has taken over as head of assurance at Grant Thornton where he will oversee the strategic direction of all the firm’s audit work.
5 Jul 18Incoming CIPFA president Sarah Howard shares her passions for public services and all things Pre-Raphaelite with Vivienne Russell.
4 Jul 18The 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.
4 Jul 18Central 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.
2 Jul 18CIPFA conference returns to Bournemouth and the South West next week. Neil Merrick takes a look at some of the opportunities and challenges facing this beautiful but sometimes neglected region....
