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21 Jun 12
Business Secretary Vince Cable today launched 4,230 new ‘Higher Apprenticeships’ to fill skill gaps in sectors such as accountancy, the law and social care.
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11 Jun 12
Armed with a laptop or smart phone, today’s public sector workers do not have to be tied to the physical office. This throws up some challenges for managers
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8 Jun 12
Scotland will create its own agency to collect taxes devolved to Holyrood, Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney announced yesterday.
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8 Jun 12
In an era of spending cuts and staff redundancies, it is more important than ever to ensure that your organisation is not discriminating in theory or practice. Tim Whitworth explains how
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1 Jun 12
Smaller public bodies have called for an agency to be created to appoint auditors for them once the Audit Commission is abolished.
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30 May 12
The Department of Health is seeking views on improving purchasing in the NHS.
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24 May 12
More than eight out of ten academies believe increased financial freedoms will bring about pressure to spend money wisely, according to a survey.
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10 May 12
Improving cash management and fraud prevention could save the government as much as £18.7bn annually, an analysis of state spending said today.
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4 May 12
Claire Gravil has topped the poll in the CIPFA council elections for 2012/13.
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3 May 12
Accounting in the public sector has had its fair share of change. Now it is the turn of internal audit, with new standards set to be published later this year
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1 May 12
The Public Accounts Committee today called for an end to the routine use of the Private Finance Initiative to pay for public infrastructure, saying some of the private sector profits were ‘difficult...
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30 Apr 12
The abolition of the Audit Commission will eventually lead to councils appointing their own auditors. Richard Johnstone looks at the lessons for audit from foundation trusts and academy schools
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27 Apr 12
Last summer’s riots inflicted untold misery on individuals and businesses across England. But the views and concerns of those who suffered are now being heard loud and clear thanks to the work of...
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26 Apr 12
The Public Accounts Committee today urged the Treasury to exercise greater control over Whitehall spending cuts, including setting central standards for both the planning and reporting of cost...
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25 Apr 12
Auditors have found gaps in the Home Office’s savings plan and called for it to be managed more effectively.
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25 Apr 12
The Local Government Association is consulting councils on a ‘procurement pledge’ to citizens, with the aim of securing better value from the £62bn councils spend each year on goods and services.
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24 Apr 12
More than 3,000 UK council staff earned above £100,000 in 2010/11, according to research from the Taxpayers’ Alliance published today.
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24 Apr 12
The National Audit Office met council representatives today as part of its preparations to take over work from the soon-to-be-abolished Audit Commission.
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18 Apr 12
Unemployment fell by 35,000 over the three months to February, according to Office for National Statistics figures published today.
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13 Apr 12
Focusing spending on the front line is understandable in a time of scarce resources. But neglecting the information systems you need to assess policy costs and benefits can be a false economy
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11 Apr 12
In straitened times, public sector leaders have to look at their services with fresh eyes. This can mean tearing up the rule book, a frightening prospect for many staff. Managers must be encouraged...
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28 Mar 12
MSPs have approved the choice of former CIPFA president Caroline Gardner as Scotland’s new auditor general.
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19 Mar 12
Whitehall departments do not know if they are making best use of Government Procurement Cards, the National Audit Office has found.
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9 Mar 12
Ministers were today accused of imposing changes on public sector pensions after the Treasury said negotiations had concluded for all but the local government scheme.
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5 Mar 12
It used to be hard to gather all the information needed for monitoring and planning services. But now we’re in the Big Data Era, things are set to change