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22 Oct 20
Social care provision should remain outsourced despite the problems in the sector, King’s Fund director of policy Sally Warren told a Public Finance Live conference session on care reform after Covid...
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22 Oct 20
Manchester City Council has scooped the Grand Prix Award for its ‘Our Manchester Social Value through Progressive Procurement’ scheme.
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22 Oct 20
London mayor Sadiq Khan and prime minister Boris Johnson are at loggerheads over the management of Transport for London as the network continues negotiations on a second bailout.
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22 Oct 20
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced the government is to amend its Job Support Scheme to increase support to businesses affected by reduced trade resulting from Covid-19.
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22 Oct 20
Councils in England are set to receive £100m to help keep local authority run leisure centres open through the winter.
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21 Oct 20
Covid-19 exacerbated the already stark problems faced by the social care sector, but offers an opportunity to change course in some areas, a Public Finance Live session has been told.
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21 Oct 20
A council finance department that played a pivotal role in creating better outcomes for residents has been named Council Finance Team of the Year at the PF Live conference.
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21 Oct 20
Public sector net borrowing reached the highest level ever recorded in the first half of the fiscal year as the government tried to deal with the health and economic consequences of Covid-19.
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21 Oct 20
Many of the recommendations in the Redmond Review can be carried out in the short-term without the need for new legislation, Sir Tony Redmond has told the PF Live conference.
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21 Oct 20
The Treasury has confirmed the Comprehensive Spending Review will only set departmental budgets for next year, due to the economic disruption caused by Covid-19.
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20 Oct 20
Lancashire County Council has confirmed it plans to issue its third bond through the UK Municipal Bonds Agency.
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20 Oct 20
Mid Ulster District Council has won a VAT case which could see councils in Northern Ireland receive up to £50m in rebates on admission charges to their leisure facilities.
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20 Oct 20
NHS Scotland Counter Fraud Services Team has been awarded the Outstanding Proactive Fraud Detection and Recovery Award at Public Finance Live 2020.
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20 Oct 20
Data analysis is the biggest skills gap among public sector accountants, delegates to the virtual Public Finance Live conference have heard.
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19 Oct 20
The NHS will need to continue to derive value from costly infrastructure investments made during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers.
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19 Oct 20
Former chancellor Philip Hammond has described prime minister Boris Johnson’s claim that the UK will prosper under any no-deal Brexit as a "delusion".
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19 Oct 20
CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman has claimed that Plymouth City Council acted outside its legal powers by agreeing an interest rates swap deal.
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19 Oct 20
The University of Edinburgh has scooped the Achievement in Financial Reporting and Accountability award in this year’s Public Finance Awards.
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18 Oct 20
Ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded the UK’s credit rating for the third time in eight years, citing factors including a deterioration in the quality of the government’s fiscal decision-making.
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16 Oct 20
HMRC needs to make fundamental changes to how it collects tax, as compliance is expected to drop as a result of Covid-19, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
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16 Oct 20
Reading Borough Council is to its delay planned commercial investment strategy, valued at £180m over the next three years, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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16 Oct 20
Payment errors and benefit fraud hit their highest-ever level in 2019-2020, prior to the full coronavirus lockdown, according to a National Audit Office report into the Department for Work and...
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16 Oct 20
CIPFA/LASAAC are seeking comments on a raft of issues in the 2021/22 local authority accounting code before the consultation closes on 23 October.
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15 Oct 20
The Scottish Government is set to allocate an additional £52.6m to maintain bus services during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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15 Oct 20
An ambitious IT system for health boards and local authorities in Wales is taking longer to roll out and more “costly than expected”, according to Audit Wales.
22 Oct 20Social care provision should remain outsourced despite the problems in the sector, King’s Fund director of policy Sally Warren told a Public Finance Live conference session on care reform after Covid...
22 Oct 20Manchester City Council has scooped the Grand Prix Award for its ‘Our Manchester Social Value through Progressive Procurement’ scheme.
22 Oct 20London mayor Sadiq Khan and prime minister Boris Johnson are at loggerheads over the management of Transport for London as the network continues negotiations on a second bailout.
22 Oct 20Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced the government is to amend its Job Support Scheme to increase support to businesses affected by reduced trade resulting from Covid-19.
22 Oct 20Councils in England are set to receive £100m to help keep local authority run leisure centres open through the winter.
21 Oct 20Covid-19 exacerbated the already stark problems faced by the social care sector, but offers an opportunity to change course in some areas, a Public Finance Live session has been told.
21 Oct 20A council finance department that played a pivotal role in creating better outcomes for residents has been named Council Finance Team of the Year at the PF Live conference.
21 Oct 20Public sector net borrowing reached the highest level ever recorded in the first half of the fiscal year as the government tried to deal with the health and economic consequences of Covid-19.
21 Oct 20Many of the recommendations in the Redmond Review can be carried out in the short-term without the need for new legislation, Sir Tony Redmond has told the PF Live conference.
21 Oct 20The Treasury has confirmed the Comprehensive Spending Review will only set departmental budgets for next year, due to the economic disruption caused by Covid-19.
20 Oct 20Lancashire County Council has confirmed it plans to issue its third bond through the UK Municipal Bonds Agency.
20 Oct 20Mid Ulster District Council has won a VAT case which could see councils in Northern Ireland receive up to £50m in rebates on admission charges to their leisure facilities.
20 Oct 20NHS Scotland Counter Fraud Services Team has been awarded the Outstanding Proactive Fraud Detection and Recovery Award at Public Finance Live 2020.
20 Oct 20Data analysis is the biggest skills gap among public sector accountants, delegates to the virtual Public Finance Live conference have heard.
19 Oct 20The NHS will need to continue to derive value from costly infrastructure investments made during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers.
19 Oct 20Former chancellor Philip Hammond has described prime minister Boris Johnson’s claim that the UK will prosper under any no-deal Brexit as a "delusion".
19 Oct 20CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman has claimed that Plymouth City Council acted outside its legal powers by agreeing an interest rates swap deal.
19 Oct 20The University of Edinburgh has scooped the Achievement in Financial Reporting and Accountability award in this year’s Public Finance Awards.
18 Oct 20Ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded the UK’s credit rating for the third time in eight years, citing factors including a deterioration in the quality of the government’s fiscal decision-making.
16 Oct 20HMRC needs to make fundamental changes to how it collects tax, as compliance is expected to drop as a result of Covid-19, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
16 Oct 20Reading Borough Council is to its delay planned commercial investment strategy, valued at £180m over the next three years, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
16 Oct 20Payment errors and benefit fraud hit their highest-ever level in 2019-2020, prior to the full coronavirus lockdown, according to a National Audit Office report into the Department for Work and...
16 Oct 20CIPFA/LASAAC are seeking comments on a raft of issues in the 2021/22 local authority accounting code before the consultation closes on 23 October.
15 Oct 20The Scottish Government is set to allocate an additional £52.6m to maintain bus services during the Covid-19 pandemic.
15 Oct 20An ambitious IT system for health boards and local authorities in Wales is taking longer to roll out and more “costly than expected”, according to Audit Wales.
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