The minister says local authority funding is only being cut by an average 1.8%. But this includes ring-fenced money that makes it harder for councils to find savings
The Public Accounts Committee has criticised the Treasury’s Whole of Government Accounts for not providing enough information on the impact of the coalition’s deficit reduction plans on public...
Local authority chief finance officers are becoming less confident about the ability of their organisations to continue providing services amid government funding cuts, a CIPFA poll has revealed.
Auditor general Amyas Morse has given a clear audit opinion to the financial statement of the Courts and Tribunals Service for the first time due to significant improvements in its reporting on fines...
Public sector job prospects have improved in the last three months, with employers now forecasting no net losses of staff, according to the Manpower Group’s Employment Outlook Survey.
Scotland's auditor general Caroline Gardner has been appointed one of three new non-executive directors of Public Sector Audit Appointments, the body that will oversee local audit contracts from next...
Councils in Hertfordshire are drawing up plans to create a single integrated ‘civil service’ across all the county’s local government bodies to make savings, Public Finance has been told.
Valerie Pierce suggests ways to take the weight off your shoulders when the competing demands of the job pile up and conflicting priorities threaten your sense of perspective – and the morale of
your...
Action is needed to strengthen public financial management in the UK to ensure the country is prepared for economic shocks and help restore trust in government, CIPFA has said today.
What does CIPFA want from the political parties come May 2015? Some honesty about the fiscal position, for starters – and realism about the hard choices to be made
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles is to send three commissioners into Tower Hamlets to oversee the work of the authority after an inspection by PricewaterhouseCoopers found it had failed to...
Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge has called for a tougher tax regime that closes loopholes exploited by companies and prosecutes avoidance schemes.
Central government and local authorities do not tackle underperformance in academies and maintained schools consistently, according to the National Audit Office.
Reforms to the ‘broken’ local government funding system are needed to underpin greater localism in decision-making, an independent commission into town hall finance has concluded.
The government plans to claw back redundancy payments from NHS and council managers who return to work in the same sector within a year, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
Efforts by the Department for Work and Pensions to tackle fraud and error in the payment of Housing Benefit has not provided value for money and overpayments represent an escalating problem, the...
Local government and NHS bodies could save as much as £440m if Whitehall extends Audit Commission contracts for local auditor services to 2020, the watchdog has said.
CIPFA has launched a one-stop-shop for finance professionals and accountable officers working in academies to access best practice and guidance to help them manage public resources.
Councils will need to set out more details about their spending of parking charges and plans to tackle fraud under a revised transparency code being introduced by the Department for Communities and...
The Local Government Association has formed a new company to oversee outsourced local audit contracts once the Audit Commission is abolished next March.
