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Yearly Archive: 2018

  • Resilience index shows 10% to 15% of councils at risk of financial instability 0
    • in 151 News
    • — 21 Dec, 2018

    Resilience index shows 10% to 15% of councils at risk of financial instability

    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[…]

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    High street report proposes new fund and local initiative to arrest decline 0
    • in 151 News · Development
    • — 20 Dec, 2018

    High street report proposes new fund and local initiative to arrest decline

    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[…]

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  • CIPFA welcomes report on FRC 0
    • in 151 News
    • — 19 Dec, 2018

    CIPFA welcomes report on FRC

    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[…]

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    A New  Year’s resolution for partnerships between the public and private sectors 0
    • in Blogs · Resources
    • — 18 Dec, 2018

    A New Year’s resolution for partnerships between the public and private sectors

    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[…]

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  • Rob Whiteman: Far-reaching reporting changes 0
    • in Blogs · Technical
    • — 18 Dec, 2018

    Rob Whiteman: Far-reaching reporting changes

    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[…]

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    2018 – A year in regulation 0
    • in Blogs · Technical
    • — 18 Dec, 2018

    2018 – A year in regulation

    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[…]

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  • Sometimes the old ones are the best 0
    • in Blogs · Chris Buss · Development
    • — 18 Dec, 2018

    Sometimes the old ones are the best

    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[…]

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    London’s councils applaud extension of business rates pilot 0
    • in 151 News · Funding
    • — 17 Dec, 2018

    London’s councils applaud extension of business rates pilot

    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[…]

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  • Provisional settlement does nothing to help local authorities 0
    • in Blogs
    • — 17 Dec, 2018

    Provisional settlement does nothing to help local authorities

    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[…]

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    Deprived areas benefit least from efforts to soften cuts says IFS 0
    • in 151 News · Funding
    • — 14 Dec, 2018

    Deprived areas benefit least from efforts to soften cuts says IFS

    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.[…]

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