Staff cuts are inevitable throughout the public sector. But research shows that the way redundancies are undertaken has a greater effect on employees than the job losses themselves. John Marsh...
A local government think-tank has called for citizens to be given a leading role in the audit regime that follows the abolition of the Audit Commission
As the government embarks on radical reform of the welfare system, how is the Department for Work and Pensions' finance director coping with the changes? Hunada Nouss tells PF about bringing...
Schools need to re-examine their use of teachers and teaching assistants if they are to meet the coming financial challenges, the Audit Commission has said
Whitehall departments grappling with spending cuts could learn from how the Foreign & Commonwealth Office dealt with a sudden shortfall, according to government auditors
Two major development projects in Scotland are to be funded using Tax Increment Financing, which allows councils to borrow against future gains in business rate income
The National Audit Office plans to issue comparative data about the performance of public bodies, comptroller and auditor general Amyas Morse told last week’s CIPFA international conference.
Efforts to increase accuracy and transparency in public accounts depend on sustained lobbying by the accountancy profession to overcome politicians’ fears, the CIPFA international conference heard.
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 132,000 over the whole of last year, cutting the workforce to just under 6.2 million, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Abolishing the Audit Commission will save less than £10m a year, a fifth of the amount claimed by government, the spending watchdog's chiefs have told MPs
Today's Hutton report has failed to address widespread concern that the imminent rise in employee pension contributions will lead to a mass opt-out from the Local Government Pension Scheme
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport 'salami-sliced' the budgets of its arm's-length bodies without calculating the financial consequences, a National Audit Office investigation has found
Final salary pension schemes in the public sector should end and a cap be put on the amount taxpayers contribute, according to Lord Hutton’s review of pensions, published today.
The Audit Commission overstretched its remit and placed too much burden on local authorities, which are now ready to take on elements of inspection themselves, MPs were told last night
