The Department for Education has been urged to preserve the independence of the Office for Students following the resignation of Toby Young from its board.
High Speed Rail 2’s £1.76m of unauthorised redundancy payments could have been avoided with tighter financial control, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
Trust and confidence in UK charities has recently fallen to its lowest level since monitoring began in 2005. Noel Hyndman and Danielle McConville of Queen’s University Belfast consider how this...
Councils are looking at going beyond shared services to merging to form new authorities. What does this mean for finance and democratic accountability?
Head of the government finance function Mike Driver tells PF's Vivienne Russell about his inclusive approach, and putting finance at the heart of decision making.
The Paradise Papers leak has shone more light on secret companies used by the wealthy to avoid tax and launder corrupt wealth, says Steve Goodrich of Transparency International.
Politicians and unions have called on the government to tighten up rules on tax avoidance and evasion after leaked documents showed wide-scale international investment made in offshore ‘...
Rules on civil servants moving to posts in the private sector have been operating with no guidance on their use because the Cabinet Office has failed for five years to produce this, the National...
The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea faces government intervention in the wake of its much-criticised response to the Grenfell Tower fire disaster.
The leader brought in as a new broom at the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea served in its cabinet until less than three weeks before the Grenfell Tower fire disaster.
An independent review of the Holyrood parliament has proposed more than 70 reforms, many aimed at strengthening scrutiny, but has shied away from demands for more radical change.