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1 Dec 14
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.
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11 Nov 14
CIPFA has announced it is to partner with Calibrand to deliver online examinations and assessments for its revised professional qualification.
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10 Nov 14
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...
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6 Nov 14
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.
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5 Nov 14
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
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4 Nov 14
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...
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30 Oct 14
Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge has called for a tougher tax regime that closes loopholes exploited by companies and prosecutes avoidance schemes.
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29 Oct 14
Central government and local authorities do not tackle underperformance in academies and maintained schools consistently, according to the National Audit Office.
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29 Oct 14
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.
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28 Oct 14
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.
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22 Oct 14
English councils’ fraud detection rate is the highest in 25 years, according to the Audit Commission.
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21 Oct 14
Confusion over central government’s strategic role is jeopardising the value for money of public spending, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
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17 Oct 14
Councils are increasing the commercial use of assets such as property in response to the spending squeeze, a survey of senior managers has found.
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16 Oct 14
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...
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13 Oct 14
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.
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9 Oct 14
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.
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3 Oct 14
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...
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2 Oct 14
The Local Government Association has formed a new company to oversee outsourced local audit contracts once the Audit Commission is abolished next March.
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1 Oct 14
Welsh town and community councils need to do more to address systemic weaknesses in financial management, according to the Wales Audit Office.
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26 Sep 14
There’s a lot of talk about ‘big data’ and what it can do for the public sector. The analytical software is available but making sense of data and acting more intelligently as a result are the big...
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26 Sep 14
Sir Bob Kerslake, the outgoing head of civil service, has warned that the next government will face a more difficult task in cutting the deficit from 2015 as many easier savings have already been...
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25 Sep 14
Nearly a quarter of councils have useable reserves that amount to less than 10% of their spending, according to a report published by the Audit Commission, including more than half (55%) of unitary...
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11 Sep 14
Changes to the audit regime for councils being introduced following the abolition of the Audit Commission could weaken accountability for public money and lead to politicisation of scrutiny, MPs have...
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3 Sep 14
Fraud risks are becoming more challenging and complex yet much of the counter-fraud architecture has disappeared. Vivienne Russell reports on a CIPFA initiative to bridge the gap.
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3 Sep 14
Confidence makes a tremendous difference to performance, whether on the sports field or in the workplace, but you can’t touch it, hold it or buy it at the psychology shop. So how do you recover...
1 Dec 14Councils 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.
10 Nov 14Valerie 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...
5 Nov 14What 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
4 Nov 14Local 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...
29 Oct 14Reforms 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.
28 Oct 14The 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.
22 Oct 14English councils’ fraud detection rate is the highest in 25 years, according to the Audit Commission.
16 Oct 14Efforts 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...
2 Oct 14The Local Government Association has formed a new company to oversee outsourced local audit contracts once the Audit Commission is abolished next March.
26 Sep 14There’s a lot of talk about ‘big data’ and what it can do for the public sector. The analytical software is available but making sense of data and acting more intelligently as a result are the big...
26 Sep 14Sir Bob Kerslake, the outgoing head of civil service, has warned that the next government will face a more difficult task in cutting the deficit from 2015 as many easier savings have already been...
25 Sep 14Nearly a quarter of councils have useable reserves that amount to less than 10% of their spending, according to a report published by the Audit Commission, including more than half (55%) of unitary...
3 Sep 14Confidence makes a tremendous difference to performance, whether on the sports field or in the workplace, but you can’t touch it, hold it or buy it at the psychology shop. So how do you recover...
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