The chair of the supervisory body for Scotland’s national police force has stepped down, after two committees of MSPs declared a lack of confidence in his leadership of the Scottish Police...
Campaigners have called for greater transparency in British aid spending being channelled through an increasingly broad range of government departments.
UK aid is to fund training courses in financial management, governance and cost effectiveness to smaller British organisations managing humanitarian projects around the world.
Constant upheaval and changes of direction in government policy are hugely costly in both human and economic terms, the Institute for Government warns in a paper published today.
Growing levels of public sector corruption around the world have fuelled the rise of populist politicians, Transparency International said as it released its 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index.
International lawmakers have signed an open letter urging their governments to pursue greater tax transparency following a summit on the issue in the UK today.
Civil service reform should be a government priority in order to tackle waste and increase accountability, Dame Margaret Hodge, former chair of the Public Accounts Committee, has said.
Demonstrating that the UK aid agency’s private sector arm makes a difference to the poorest people remains a “significant challenge”, the country’s National Audit Office has concluded.
The government has confirmed plans to abolish the 223-year-old Public Works Loan Board and transfer its functions for lending to local authorities to the Treasury.
Government departments often have weak or unclear accountability for arm’s length bodies, despite spending £250bn through them every year, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
The chair of the Local Government Association has warned that a “pause” in devolution following Theresa May’s arrival in Downing Street could derail the process across the country.
Theresa May has set out plans to pass a “Great Repeal Act” that will incorporate European Union law into Westminster statute and then allow the government to begin to remove provisions following...
Former Labour minister John Healey has said that devolution under the last Labour government was “hamstrung” by efforts to develop proposals that could apply across the whole country.
Unison trade union leader Dave Prentis has today urged the Labour Party to stop “obsessing about rule changes and internal rows” and become focused on being electable so the party can “protect public...
Governments around the world need to hold themselves to the same high standards as they expect from the private sector, the president of the International Federation of Accountants has said.
The electorate’s decision to leave the European Union will test the UK’s institutional stability, policymaking and delivery. CIPFA stands ready to help
The turmoil created by Brexit presents an ideal opportunity to address a range of constitutional anomalies, not least the fragmented system for public service complaints
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have stated they have little confidence in scrutiny arrangements being put in place around the government’s flagship devolution deals, and called for...
The cost of fraud is far higher than previous estimates, and procurement accounts for most of this. With cuts to internal audit and procurement teams focused on savings, local authorities need all...
Westminster City Council has claimed to have produced the earliest ever set of public sector accounts after getting its books for 2015/16 to external auditors on 9 April, only nine days after the...
Any grant-awarding body can be subject to fraud, which may damage service delivery and public trust. Putting safeguards in place can help to protect against this