Experienced local government finance officer Chris Buss is joining London Borough of Croydon as director of finance on an interim basis, after the resignation of current post holder Lisa Taylor.
Councils in England face setting aside an additional £2bn to help cover business rates appeals over the next two financial years due to Covid-19, unless central government support is forthcoming.
Sedgemoor District Council leader Duncan McGinty makes the case for a two-unitary solution to Somerset’s upcoming reorganisation of local government structures.
Reading Borough Council has scrapped plans to add to its commercial property portfolio due to Covid-19 and changes to Public Works Loan Board lending rules.
Covid-19 has left councils more than £1bn short of their expected council tax revenues. But what explains the wide variation among collection levels between different authorities? Kate Ogden, local...
The Department of Health and Social Care has published a white paper promising significant reforms to the structure of the NHS. PF rounds up the sector’s responses.
The government is close to approving two capitalisation directions worth £12.8m to help Eastbourne Borough Council meet funding gaps caused by Covid-19.
Local authorities lack the expertise to manage the wind-down of private finance initiative deals as contracts begin to come to an end, a civil servant warned this week.
Local authorities in England will receive around £15m in additional funding to help hold safe council elections, after the government confirmed polling will take place on 6 May.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak needs to think very carefully about the potentially damaging consequences of scrapping council tax and replacing it with a new national property tax, says Jessica Studdert...
Local government spending power will be around two percentage points lower than the 4.6% trailed by the government in the final funding settlement announced yesterday, according to a local government...
A report showing healthy profits for independent providers of children’s residential care while councils struggle underlines the need for reform, says Judith Blake chair of the Local Government...
Local authority finance officers joined a recent webinar hosted by TechnologyOne and CIPFA to assess the role of digital technology adoption in helping councils respond to Covid-19.
The government has “no other credible alternative” to granting the London Borough of Croydon a capitalisation direction to ease its financial woes, a review it commissioned has concluded.
Richard Lloyd-Bithell, senior technical manager at CIPFA, runs through the new proposals for the Prudential Code in response to increased local authority investment in commercial property.
Northampton Borough Council displayed significant governance failures over loans paid to its local football club Northampton Town FC, according to a public interest report issued by auditors this...
North Yorkshire County Council is proposing a 3.5% council tax rise – below the allowed maximum – for next year, despite a forecast medium term funding gap of £18m.
Funding from the Scottish Government will only meet between 60% and 70% of overall financial pressures identified by councils, according to the country’s local government spending watchdog.
Covid-19 financial pressures for local authorities in England totalled £10.8bn during 2020, as forecast pressures for 2020-21 rose to £12.5bn, according to latest returns submitted to government.
