Brexit would be detrimental to the UK’s world-class science, higher education and research sectors, former minister for universities and science David Willets has warned.
CIPFA and ICAS have extended their partnership with a new initiative that will enable CIPFA members to gain ICAS status to help them further their careers in both public and private sectors.
Brexit would trigger a “DIY recession”, plunging Britain into a sustained contraction of its own making and adding half a million people to the ranks of the unemployed, chancellor George...
Councils need additional fiscal freedoms following devolution of business rates in order to mitigate the risk of making local services dependent on such a volatile source of income, a report has...
NHS providers in England ended 2015-16 with a £2.45bn deficit, the second successive year it has been plunged into the red, raising concerns that the Department of Health’s spending limit...
The European Commission has deferred its decision on disciplinary action regarding Spain and Portugal’s stubborn “excessive” deficits until early July.
Nearly two-thirds of NHS trust finance directors and more than half of clinical commissioning groups finance leads think their local quality of patient care has deteriorated over the past year,...
Councils and teachers have attacked the Education for All Bill promised in the Queen’s Speech, which would strip local authorities of almost all their remaining education powers.
John Swinney’s nine-year stewardship of Scotland’s public finances has ended, after first minister Nicola Sturgeon shifted him to the politically sensitive education portfolio in a major...
Radical reforms to the way prisons are managed have been outlined in the Queen’s Speech at the state opening of Parliament today, and a bill to overhaul local government finance will also be included...
Government efforts to spend more money through small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have lost momentum and cannot be reliably measured, the Public Accounts Committee has found.
Employers joining the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) may underestimate the obligations involved, the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has warned.
CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman has been named as a member of the RSA Inclusive Growth Commission that is considering how to use devolution to help create more prosperous communities.
The Single Source Regulations Office has removed £1.27m from the costs engines manufacturer Rolls Royce may charge the Ministry of Defence for Hawk jet engines.
Leaving the European Union’s single market would be a disaster for the UK’s economy and result in £200bn less trade every year, chancellor George Osborne warned today.
