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26 May 16
Any grant-awarding body can be subject to fraud, which may damage service delivery and public trust. Putting safeguards in place can help to protect against this
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17 May 16
The public sector has a duty to ensure equality, yet few women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds are reaching the upper echelons of public finance. What can be done to change this?
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11 May 16
Cognitive computing aims to copy how the brain works to boost productivity, processing huge amounts of data and communicating with people
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3 May 16
LinkedIn is the world’s main professional social networking site, and there are several steps you can take to get the most out of it and improve your working life
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30 Mar 16
Non-executive directors are on the front line of defending financial probity and high public standards. They need a very special skill-set to do the job well, argues Zoe Gruhn
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10 Feb 16
Teacher shortages are growing with the government’s continued failure to recruit and train sufficient numbers, the National Audit Office has warned.
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25 Jan 16
Skills minister Nick Boles has called on government departments and local authorities to open their doors to apprentices as he published a consultation to expand the number of trainees across large...
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7 Dec 15
Prime minister David Cameron has today said the government is delivering on pre-election pledges across housing, childcare and education as he announced the creation of a new public sector...
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27 Nov 15
Nine in ten nurses have said they would not have gone into the profession without the bursaries the government plans to scrap in 2017, a Unison survey has found.
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27 Nov 15
Mindfulness is moving from the clinical sphere to the office, where it is said to improve both productivity and wellbeing
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17 Nov 15
Chancellor George Osborne has struck devolution deals with Birmingham and Liverpool city regions, giving the areas control over infrastructure investment, transport and skills in return for the...
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16 Nov 15
Residential care standards in England are threatened by low staffing levels and poor quality training for carers.
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22 Oct 15
A round-up of facts and figures from the November 2015 edition of Public Finance, looking at the living wage, apprenticeships versus degrees, the productivity puzzle and Brexit opinions
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19 Oct 15
Will the government’s plan for three million new apprenticeships by 2020 add up in the long run?
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14 Oct 15
CIPFA has won a contract with the NHS Wales Finance Academy to provide tuition on its finance management training scheme.
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14 Sep 15
The government is to press ahead with reforms to trade union laws in order to end what ministers called the “endless” threat of strike action in public services from a single vote.
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17 Aug 15
A lack of construction skills could undermine the government’s pledge to build 275,000 affordable homes by 2020, councils have warned today.
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27 Jul 15
Councils are to be rated each year on the success of their efforts to keep young people in education, employment and training under a new government initiative, skills minister Nick Boles has...
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8 Jul 15
Sarah Howard has won this year’s Tom Sowerby award, presented at CIPFA’s annual conference in London.
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30 Jun 15
Gary Porter, the new Conservative chair of the Local Government Association, today called for responsibility for training and skills to be devolved to councils.
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5 Jun 15
Services for young people not in employment, education or training will be at risk by the end of the decade unless the government works with local authorities to reach a new funding deal, ministers...
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26 May 15
Amy Armstrong describes how organisations can foster a culture of compassion to help managers support employees with dignity and care when they have to cope with bereavement, critical illness or...
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1 May 15
The first cohort of trainees has completed CIPFA’s Counter Fraud Specialist qualification.
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1 Apr 15
With continuing tight budgets and deficit reduction policies the only certainty for the public sector, the pressure is on to deliver savings while improving services. Increased collaboration can cut...
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20 Mar 15
The National Infrastructure Plan is the £466bn pipeline that underpins the Treasury’s growth strategy. It enjoys bipartisan political support but something is missing. Does the...
26 May 16Any grant-awarding body can be subject to fraud, which may damage service delivery and public trust. Putting safeguards in place can help to protect against this
17 May 16The public sector has a duty to ensure equality, yet few women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds are reaching the upper echelons of public finance. What can be done to change this?
11 May 16Cognitive computing aims to copy how the brain works to boost productivity, processing huge amounts of data and communicating with people
3 May 16LinkedIn is the world’s main professional social networking site, and there are several steps you can take to get the most out of it and improve your working life
30 Mar 16Non-executive directors are on the front line of defending financial probity and high public standards. They need a very special skill-set to do the job well, argues Zoe Gruhn
10 Feb 16Teacher shortages are growing with the government’s continued failure to recruit and train sufficient numbers, the National Audit Office has warned.
25 Jan 16Skills minister Nick Boles has called on government departments and local authorities to open their doors to apprentices as he published a consultation to expand the number of trainees across large...
7 Dec 15Prime minister David Cameron has today said the government is delivering on pre-election pledges across housing, childcare and education as he announced the creation of a new public sector...
27 Nov 15Nine in ten nurses have said they would not have gone into the profession without the bursaries the government plans to scrap in 2017, a Unison survey has found.
27 Nov 15Mindfulness is moving from the clinical sphere to the office, where it is said to improve both productivity and wellbeing
17 Nov 15Chancellor George Osborne has struck devolution deals with Birmingham and Liverpool city regions, giving the areas control over infrastructure investment, transport and skills in return for the...
16 Nov 15Residential care standards in England are threatened by low staffing levels and poor quality training for carers.
22 Oct 15A round-up of facts and figures from the November 2015 edition of Public Finance, looking at the living wage, apprenticeships versus degrees, the productivity puzzle and Brexit opinions
14 Oct 15CIPFA has won a contract with the NHS Wales Finance Academy to provide tuition on its finance management training scheme.
14 Sep 15The government is to press ahead with reforms to trade union laws in order to end what ministers called the “endless” threat of strike action in public services from a single vote.
17 Aug 15A lack of construction skills could undermine the government’s pledge to build 275,000 affordable homes by 2020, councils have warned today.
27 Jul 15Councils are to be rated each year on the success of their efforts to keep young people in education, employment and training under a new government initiative, skills minister Nick Boles has...
8 Jul 15Sarah Howard has won this year’s Tom Sowerby award, presented at CIPFA’s annual conference in London.
30 Jun 15Gary Porter, the new Conservative chair of the Local Government Association, today called for responsibility for training and skills to be devolved to councils.
26 May 15Amy Armstrong describes how organisations can foster a culture of compassion to help managers support employees with dignity and care when they have to cope with bereavement, critical illness or...
1 May 15The first cohort of trainees has completed CIPFA’s Counter Fraud Specialist qualification.
1 Apr 15With continuing tight budgets and deficit reduction policies the only certainty for the public sector, the pressure is on to deliver savings while improving services. Increased collaboration can cut...
20 Mar 15The National Infrastructure Plan is the £466bn pipeline that underpins the Treasury’s growth strategy. It enjoys bipartisan political support but something is missing. Does the...
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