Scottish LGPS to consider pooling A similar LGPS pooling process to the one currently underway in England and Wales is to be considered by the Scottish Local Government Pension Scheme[…]
The government has approved plans for the largest proposed pool of Local Government Pension Scheme funds. The £36bn Border to Coast Pensions Partnership received a green light from the Department for Communities[…]
The past 12 months has been another tough year for local government with the crisis in social care funding finally becoming front page news. Councils have responded with increasing commercialisation to[…]
The past 12 months are in the dock. Agent151 covers the trial of an offender that has left many feeling like victims of a crime. M’lud, the next case is[…]
There’s plenty of talk of better economic growth next year — but scant evidence that there will be. There are signs that global growth is accelerating into the end of[…]
The way that local authorities access financial services will change in January 2018 as a result of the European Union’s second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). If the[…]
The local government settlement saw changes to the New Homes Bonus and council tax to support adult social care. Richard Harbord argues it contained no new money and ‘no long-term[…]
LGPS infrastructure fund grows to more than £1bn The size of the GLIL infrastructure fund has more than doubled to £1.272bn after investment from three additional local authority pension funds.[…]
Reforms to increase funding for adult social care are a “short-term sticking plaster” that fail to address the need for a long-term solution, according to local authority finance leaders. They[…]
Capita has announced it is to sell the division that provides local authority treasury advice in what could be a major shake-up of the market. A statement issued by Capita[…]
