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    • in Blogs · Funding · Resources
    • — 1 Apr, 2021

    Impact Awards: Finance helps launch school meals company and support business during lockdown

    The CCLA/Room151 Impact Awards will showcase the way finance teams have a direct impact on their local communities and the environment. This week we spotlight the work of Plymouth City[…]

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    • in Resources · Treasury
    • — 8 Feb, 2021

    Room151 panel backs unitary councils and devolution

    Bigger isn’t always better when it comes to local government, according to Sir Bob Kerslake, chair of the Peabody Trust, but “ …we need to move to unitary government and[…]

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    • in Blogs · Treasury
    • — 22 Jan, 2021

    FDs’ Summit experts defend councils as MPs label property investment ‘risky’

    As Room151’s FDs’ Summit conference explores local government’s investment in commercial property MPs once again lable it a “significant risk to government”. Once again MPs have taken aim at local[…]

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    • in Blogs · Treasury
    • — 21 Jan, 2021

    ‘Chasing yield’ not the best strategy as negative rates loom

    Recent speculation that the UK may be heading toward negative interest rates prompts questions at LATIF for treasury officers managing local authority funds. Speculation is rife that the UK may[…]

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    • in 151 News · Blogs · Treasury
    • — 26 Nov, 2020

    PWLB makes “seismic” rate cut as Warrington opts for bond issue

    Additional research: Atharva Deshmukh. As the chancellor delivered his spending review the local government borrowing terrain was rocked by a PWLB rate cut of 100bps despite  bond issues showing signs[…]

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    • in Blogs · Funding
    • — 13 Nov, 2020

    Rebuke of £3.6bn Towns Fund administration hits home

    MPs on the Public Accounts Committee say the running of the Towns Fund is opaque and “not impartial” . With a bulging kitty of £3.6bn the government’s Towns Fund—a project[…]

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    • in Blogs · LGPSi
    • — 29 Oct, 2020

    Webinar explores LGPS role in tackling climate crisis

    Investors are increasingly focused on using their assets to aid the battle against global warming, and the LGPS is no exception. In a recent development, the Northern LGPS pool  signed[…]

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    • in Blogs · Treasury
    • — 20 Oct, 2020

    CIPFA defends ‘huge prize’ in PWLB borrowing debate

    The future lending terms for local government borrowing has become a sensitive topic. Room151.co.uk brought experts together to explore the issue. The debate over councils borrowing from PWLB for commercial[…]

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    • in Blogs · Funding · Treasury
    • — 20 Aug, 2020

    Relax borrowing rules to tackle financial crisis, says think tank

    The Institute for Fiscal Studies says local government in England still needs an extra £2bn to see it through the pandemic. One way of dealing with financial needs, it argues,[…]

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    • in Funding · Interviews
    • — 29 Apr, 2020

    £10bn needed for local government to manage Covid-19 crisis

    Local government could need as much as £10bn in total extra funding if it is to manage the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown, according to one of the UK’s leading[…]

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