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1 Mar 11
As staff feel the impact of redundancies and a pay freeze, employers need to carve out a bit extra to make them feel valued. Duncan Brown shows how
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28 Feb 11
The chair of the Audit Commission has rebuked the government for delaying its abolition, sentencing the watchdog to a 'living death'
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23 Feb 11
Major doubts have been cast on the government's plans for a mass mutualisation of public services, with scepticism over both staff appetite for and the viability of the model
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22 Feb 11
More than 50,000 NHS jobs are to be axed, according to research published today.
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15 Feb 11
Council chief executives earned an average of £147,934 last year, according to the first analysis of senior staff pay in local government.
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14 Feb 11
Public sector spending cuts could lead to an exodus of graduates from regions outside the Southeast, impeding economic recovery, according to the Work Foundation.
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9 Feb 11
Treasury plans to increase employee contributions to public sector pensions risk ‘breaking’ the system by prompting a mass exodus of members, the chief of one of the UK’s major schemes has warned.
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9 Feb 11
Finance Secretary John Swinney has rejected claims that the Scottish Government failed to provide the UK Treasury with any detailed analysis of its case for full financial autonomy
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8 Feb 11
The government's decision to scrap the Audit Commission was not evidence-based, MPs have been told
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8 Feb 11
Nottingham City Council is defying government orders to publish all spending over £500, claiming it is too busy dealing with budget cuts
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4 Feb 11
The Audit Commission has given a damning verdict of the government’s plans for local government audit following the watchdog’s abolition in 2012.
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3 Feb 11
Public sector finance chiefs should not be merely coping with change but mastering it - and that means learning new skills very quickly. Ann McFadyen and Brendan McCarron explain
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28 Jan 11
Thousands more jobs and millions of pounds' worth of services are at risk unless the government allows more redundancy costs to be met from capital resources, councils warned today
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28 Jan 11
Local government minister Andrew Stunell has written to council leaders reminding them to dip into their reserves during the current period of funding cuts and organisational change.
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25 Jan 11
Local government finance jobs have been thrust into the spotlight as councils prepare their budgets and reorganise services in the shadow of a finance settlement that was tougher than many expected.
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21 Jan 11
All civil servants need a good grasp of finance to help them make better decisions, according to the Treasury
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20 Jan 11
The Department of Work and Pensions needs to increase its efforts to reduce mistakes made by claimants, auditors said today
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5 Jan 11
Public service reforms are being rushed through with little evidence to support them and also risk being undermined by spending cuts, say workers and voluntary organisations
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4 Jan 11
Tony Redmond, former chair of the Commission for Local Administration in England and local government ombudsman, has been knighted in the latest round of honours
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4 Jan 11
New jobs in the public sector hit a record low last month, at less than half the level recorded in December 2009, latest figures show. But demand for qualified accountants continues to rise.
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20 Dec 10
The government’s public service reforms will fail unless they are accompanied by a ‘step change’ in human resources management, experts have warned.
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16 Dec 10
With a harsh financial winter ahead, finance managers must be ready to step into the cold and guide other departments and their own staff through the blizzards ahead. Mark Pegg and Steve Watson offer...
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15 Dec 10
A fresh row has broken out over the scale of the deficit in the Local Government Pension Scheme
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14 Dec 10
Government claims that yesterday's local government finance settlement was 'progressive' and 'fair' have been forcefully disputed
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14 Dec 10
'Serious organisational failings' in the Ministry of Defence have led to inefficiency and long-term additional costs, a damning report from the Public Accounts Committee has said
1 Mar 11As staff feel the impact of redundancies and a pay freeze, employers need to carve out a bit extra to make them feel valued. Duncan Brown shows how
3 Feb 11Public sector finance chiefs should not be merely coping with change but mastering it - and that means learning new skills very quickly. Ann McFadyen and Brendan McCarron explain
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