CIPFA has today published a summary of the key results from the ‘beta’ version of its resilience index, which was released to the finance directors of English councils earlier this[…]
The final report from the High Streets Expert Panel has been published today by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The group, headed by Sir John Timpson, was[…]
The independent review of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has recommended that the body be replaced with an independent statutory regulator, the Auditing, Reporting and Governance Authority, which will have[…]
NLGN’s Sarah Lawson looks back at a fraught year for public/private sector partnerships, and says a new approach is needed. As 2018 draws to a close, it has ended in[…]
Rob Whiteman reviews the dramatic changes over the past 12 months and looks ahead to the coming year. Just as the 1960s are retrospectively seen as a period of social[…]
David Green casts an eye over a year of numerous changes. 2018 was a big year for regulatory change in local authority treasury management. No sooner had the New Year’s[…]
Chris Buss suggests four ways to stimulate the building of council housing. Earlier in the year the government issued a Green Paper on social housing; since then the world has[…]
London Councils, representing the capital’s 32 borough councils and the City of London, and the mayor of London have welcomed the decision in last week’s provisional local government settlement to[…]
Last week’s provisional settlement for local government was predictably disappointing, says Richard Harbord, while the big issues of funding social care and council tax reform wait unaddressed in the political[…]
A new study from the IFS says that the extra money made available by central government to help deal with funding cuts has benefited better-off areas more than poorer ones.[…]
