Councils have reacted with dismay to today’s provisional Local Government Finance Settlement, which outlined an 8.8% cut from central government funding for next year. The settlement, unveiled today, means that[…]
Co-op fails BofE stress test The Co-operative Bank is the only bank to fail a stress test of the UK banking system carried out by the Bank of England. The[…]
After six years of leading technical teams providing technical guidance, training and advice to auditors and local authority accountants, Graham is leaving Grant Thornton UK LLP to join Brighton and[…]
Graeme Muir is a partner with Barnett Waddingham. Terry Crossley contributed to the writing of this blog. With the regularity of the Gregorian calendar, Michael Johnson has issued yet again[…]
2014 was the year when it became apparent that the financial difficulties facing local authorities were only at midpoint at best. It was the year the new pension regulations came[…]
Mandy Bretherton is Technical Manager at CIPFA, responsible for Treasury Management and Adult Social Care Panels. By the end of 2014 less than 40% of the government’s fiscal consolidation plan had[…]
Stephen Sheen is the managing partner of Ichabod’s Industries, a consultancy providing technical support to local government. From an accounts and audit point of view, 2014 was notable for sending[…]
A total of 48 councils have now signed up to become investors in the agency, up from 38 who had signed up in September when it was also announced that[…]
As part of a series of commentaries by Room151 readers, looking back over 2014 and forward to the year ahead, Mark Horsfield, director of Arlingclose examines the rapidly changing nature of[…]
The received wisdom is that the recent decline in oil and other commodity prices should provide a boost to global growth by increasing household real incomes in countries such as[…]
