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22 Oct 18
Cash-strapped councils increasingly borrowing to invest in commercial properties risk local services - which are often for vulnerable people - being at the mercy of the property market, says CIPFA...
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22 Oct 18
Adopting international accounting standards would keep council house borrowing off the national debt and allow real fiscal autonomy, says Chartered Institute of Housing’s policy adviser John...
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22 Oct 18
Devolution offers a solution to mitigate local government’s powers being stripped back to ‘core offers’ focused on social care but it needs funding to do so, says IPPR North’s Anna Round.
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18 Oct 18
Glasgow Caledonian University’s senior equalities lecturer Angela O’Hagan talks about why gender budgeting was discussed at CIPFA’s Northern Ireland Conference last week.
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10 Oct 18
Partnerships between the public and private sector have a future but need another level of scrutiny - which could be done by the people themselves, says deputy director of NLGN Jessica...
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10 Oct 18
Last week’s draft Welsh budget was the first to include Wales-specific income taxes. Guto Ifan of Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre argues that this new fiscal context demands an...
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9 Oct 18
Fiscal devolution and a reconfiguration of political economy in localities will become the battleground of domestic policy in the post-Brexit general election, argues Jonathan Werran.
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5 Oct 18
Local Government Information Unit's chief executive Jonathan Carr-West mulls over what came out of the Conservative Party Conference for the public sector.
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5 Oct 18
Reports of a former minister's ‘horror’ at being given £4.2bn to digitise the NHS without any plan in place show the need for greater transparency, accountability and scrutiny of how the government...
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4 Oct 18
Theresa May’s speech to the Conservative Party Conference yesterday showed more political will to bring a close to austerity rather than an actual end, writes Resolution Foundation director...
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3 Oct 18
The government has given a welcome boost to council borrowing for public purpose, says CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman.
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28 Sep 18
Local authority finances were unusually high up the agenda at the Labour conference this year but councils remain in a state of flux until the government realises the system of funding them needs...
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28 Sep 18
Officers and members need to communicate and work together to find solutions to the many challenges facing local government, says Cliff Dalton, CIPFA’s head of advisory services
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27 Sep 18
Theresa May has pledged to hand £2bn to housing associations over the course of seven years from 2022. Jeremy Earnshaw, chief financial officer at housing association Your Housing Group, writes about...
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25 Sep 18
Ken Lee, chair of CIPFA’s housing panel, says there are plenty of actions the government can take if it wants to send a positive message about social housing.
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21 Sep 18
It’s time for local leaders to come together and lobby the government on issues of common concern, says think-tank Centre for Cities chief executive Andrew Carter.
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20 Sep 18
A reduction in child arrests is obviously good for the young people themselves - but also for public services, says the Howard League for Penal Reform’s Andrew Neilson.
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18 Sep 18
Social care needs a system such as the childcare voucher scheme, says the co-founder of an international nursery chain John Woodward. He was also the architect of the childcare voucher scheme....
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14 Sep 18
Some 80% of risk-related costs are often overlooked. Managing these can lead to sustainable financial savings, both directly and indirectly, says Zurich Municipal's Andrew Jepp.
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13 Sep 18
By giving power back to the people and redefining their relationship with communities, local authorities can help themselves transform, says the NLGN’s director Adam Lent.
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11 Sep 18
John Thornton asks if the UK could learn from the US Digital Service when it comes to implementing IT systems for immigration and universal credit.
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7 Sep 18
Business rates are broken and deter companies from investing to boost productivity - abolishing them would bring benefits to the public sector as well as enterprise, argues Lib Dem Lord Fox.
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6 Sep 18
Councils have long supplied schools with services from finance to catering. With market changes, they need to act to keep this income, says Richard Harries.
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5 Sep 18
Consultations on changes to local authorities’ accounting code include a substantial change to practice around leases, says CIPFA's Sarah Sheen.
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4 Sep 18
On 1 April 2013 the government brought in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, which meant hundreds of thousands of people eligibe for legal aid became ineligible....
22 Oct 18Cash-strapped councils increasingly borrowing to invest in commercial properties risk local services - which are often for vulnerable people - being at the mercy of the property market, says CIPFA...
22 Oct 18Adopting international accounting standards would keep council house borrowing off the national debt and allow real fiscal autonomy, says Chartered Institute of Housing’s policy adviser John...
22 Oct 18Devolution offers a solution to mitigate local government’s powers being stripped back to ‘core offers’ focused on social care but it needs funding to do so, says IPPR North’s Anna Round.
18 Oct 18Glasgow Caledonian University’s senior equalities lecturer Angela O’Hagan talks about why gender budgeting was discussed at CIPFA’s Northern Ireland Conference last week.
10 Oct 18Partnerships between the public and private sector have a future but need another level of scrutiny - which could be done by the people themselves, says deputy director of NLGN Jessica...
10 Oct 18Last week’s draft Welsh budget was the first to include Wales-specific income taxes. Guto Ifan of Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre argues that this new fiscal context demands an...
9 Oct 18Fiscal devolution and a reconfiguration of political economy in localities will become the battleground of domestic policy in the post-Brexit general election, argues Jonathan Werran.
5 Oct 18Local Government Information Unit's chief executive Jonathan Carr-West mulls over what came out of the Conservative Party Conference for the public sector.
5 Oct 18Reports of a former minister's ‘horror’ at being given £4.2bn to digitise the NHS without any plan in place show the need for greater transparency, accountability and scrutiny of how the government...
4 Oct 18Theresa May’s speech to the Conservative Party Conference yesterday showed more political will to bring a close to austerity rather than an actual end, writes Resolution Foundation director...
3 Oct 18The government has given a welcome boost to council borrowing for public purpose, says CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman.
28 Sep 18Local authority finances were unusually high up the agenda at the Labour conference this year but councils remain in a state of flux until the government realises the system of funding them needs...
28 Sep 18Officers and members need to communicate and work together to find solutions to the many challenges facing local government, says Cliff Dalton, CIPFA’s head of advisory services
27 Sep 18Theresa May has pledged to hand £2bn to housing associations over the course of seven years from 2022. Jeremy Earnshaw, chief financial officer at housing association Your Housing Group, writes about...
25 Sep 18Ken Lee, chair of CIPFA’s housing panel, says there are plenty of actions the government can take if it wants to send a positive message about social housing.
21 Sep 18It’s time for local leaders to come together and lobby the government on issues of common concern, says think-tank Centre for Cities chief executive Andrew Carter.
20 Sep 18A reduction in child arrests is obviously good for the young people themselves - but also for public services, says the Howard League for Penal Reform’s Andrew Neilson.
18 Sep 18Social care needs a system such as the childcare voucher scheme, says the co-founder of an international nursery chain John Woodward. He was also the architect of the childcare voucher scheme....
14 Sep 18Some 80% of risk-related costs are often overlooked. Managing these can lead to sustainable financial savings, both directly and indirectly, says Zurich Municipal's Andrew Jepp.
13 Sep 18By giving power back to the people and redefining their relationship with communities, local authorities can help themselves transform, says the NLGN’s director Adam Lent.
11 Sep 18John Thornton asks if the UK could learn from the US Digital Service when it comes to implementing IT systems for immigration and universal credit.
7 Sep 18Business rates are broken and deter companies from investing to boost productivity - abolishing them would bring benefits to the public sector as well as enterprise, argues Lib Dem Lord Fox.
6 Sep 18Councils have long supplied schools with services from finance to catering. With market changes, they need to act to keep this income, says Richard Harries.
5 Sep 18Consultations on changes to local authorities’ accounting code include a substantial change to practice around leases, says CIPFA's Sarah Sheen.
4 Sep 18On 1 April 2013 the government brought in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, which meant hundreds of thousands of people eligibe for legal aid became ineligible....
