Three perspectives on the state and potential of England’s devolution journey kicked off the breakout session panels at this year’s PF Live in Birmingham.
Restricted budgets and difficult decision-making only increase how important it is to maintain good standards and governance in the public sector, Public Finance Live delegates were told.
The pressure on democracy is already finding its way to audit in some parts of the world, but audit has always known political pressure, Public Finance Live delegates heard.
The major challenges facing the world will only be overcome with the help of public finance professionals, new CIPFA president Sir Mark Lowcock said as he opened Public Finance Live in Birmingham.
A local government finance shake-up represents an encouraging opportunity to fix many of the sector’s longstanding issues, but experts have warned the proposals published thus far still lack...
The operational capability of those responsible for delivering frontline government services is “varied and often lacking in what matters most”, according to a report from the National Audit...
The government has been told it should do more to reform the “outdated and inadequate” way in which public money has traditionally been allocated, despite improvements in the Spending Review.
The scale of Woking Borough Council’s initial bailout will be finalised in September, the government said as it put rival proposals for redrawing local government boundaries in Surrey out to...
Hundreds of councils face financial precarity and the government is finally running out of time to do something about it, an influential group of MPs has warned.
Councils have warned that they will remain under “severe financial pressure” despite a more generous than expected settlement that will see core spending power rise by 2.6% from next year.
No region will have Treasury guidance “wielded against them”, the chancellor has promised as she unveiled a major shake-up of the rules governing the allocation of public investment.
Prolonged uncertainty in the wake of the Spending Review over the handling of mounting high needs deficits is causing “massive concerns” among local authorities, the government has been told.
More than £10bn of investment in rail infrastructure in the Spending Review will help rebalance the economy away from London and the South-East, experts have said.
Health spending will increase by billions of pounds following Rachel Reeves’s first multi-year Spending Review as chancellor, but at a cost to other departments.
Pressure to increase health and defence spending will make cuts to other public services hard to avoid in the Spending Review, according to a leading think-tank.
The deadline to pool assets under the Local Government Pension Scheme may be unrealistic, while concerns over potential conflicts of interest under the new arrangements have not been fully addressed...
Councils may be able to borrow or make flexible use of capital receipts to foot the bill for local government reorganisation, the government has confirmed.
Manchester City Council and the Greater Manchester Pension Fund have joined together in a partnership that aims to deliver affordable homes across the city.
Civil servants who used artificial intelligence for routine administrative tasks freed up the equivalent of two working weeks a year, a government trial has shown.
Pandemic-era contracts for unsuitable personal protective equipment cost the government £1.4bn, of which £762m is unlikely to ever be recovered, according to an interim report commissioned by...
