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  • 151 BRIEF

    What's New?

  • Inflation ‘disastrous’ for local services, warns LGA

    August 10, 2022

  • Consultation opens into care charging reforms

    August 9, 2022

  • ADASS survey: ‘worst fears confirmed for adult social care’

    August 5, 2022

  • GMCA to unlock funds for home energy-efficiency upgrades

    August 4, 2022

  • Levelling up committee calls for urgent boost to social care funding

    August 4, 2022

  • Oxfordshire councils abandon housing plan

    August 4, 2022

  • Treasury
  • Technical
  • Funding
  • Resources
  • LGPS
  • Development
  • 151 News
  • Blogs
    • David Green
    • Agent 151
    • Dan Bates
    • Richard Harbord
    • Stephen Sheen
    • James Bevan
    • Steve Bishop
    • Cllr John Clancy
    • David Crum
    • Graham Liddell
    • Ian O’Donnell
    • Jackie Shute
  • Interviews
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Blogs

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    • in Blogs · Treasury
    • — 20 May, 2022

    Investing today: nowhere to hide

    Partner Content: Alex Stanley from Ardea Investment Management suggests that investors have few places to hide amid a synchronised sell-off in both bonds and equities. However, there are catalysts that[…]

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    0
    • in Blogs · Treasury
    • — 9 May, 2022

    Rate rise represents ‘fastest increase in borrowing costs in 25 years’

    Partner Content: CCLA Investment Management’s Robert Evans analyses the rationale for the Bank of England’s latest rise in the Official Bank Rate and assesses the likely outcome of the next[…]

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  • 0
    • in Audit · Blogs · Technical
    • — 28 Apr, 2022

    Why infrastructure assets are the ugly ducklings of capital accounting

    Stephen Sheen offers an avian analysis of how to resolve the current local audit delays caused by a “major” issue involving infrastructure assets. Some of you may be struggling to[…]

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    0
    • in Blogs · Treasury
    • — 25 Apr, 2022

    What are bond markets telling us?

    Partner Content: In early April the US Treasury yield curve briefly inverted, a traditional sign of an impending economic downturn. Aegon Asset Management’s Nick Edwardson discusses whether it will be[…]

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  • 0
    • in Blogs · Development · Funding · Housing · Infrastructure
    • — 21 Apr, 2022

    Don’t expect an infrastructure levy any time soon

    The government plans to axe section 106 agreements in favour of an infrastructure levy, but Richard Harbord warns that consultation paralysis, levelling-up concerns and developer opposition could block any progress.[…]

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    0
    • in Audit · Blogs · Technical
    • — 20 Apr, 2022

    ‘We need to shift the focus of local authority accounting’

    The chair of the CIPFA/LASAAC Code Board reflects on the decision to delay implementation of IFRS 16 and suggests that now is the time to address anomalies in the application[…]

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  • 0
    • in Blogs · Funding · Social care
    • — 13 Apr, 2022

    Time to pause adult social care proposals

    Proposed government reforms to adult social care will place huge additional burdens on local authorities with significantly increased costs. Leigh Whitehouse discusses the forecast impact at Surrey County Council and[…]

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    0
    • in Blogs · LGPS · Net Zero
    • — 7 Apr, 2022

    The net-zero challenge for LGPS funds

    Philip Pearson looks at the issues impacting LGPS funds as they attempt to decarbonise their portfolios to both reduce climate risks and capture associated investment opportunities. Addressing climate change is[…]

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  • 0
    • in Blogs · Business rates · Council tax · Funding · Social care
    • — 6 Apr, 2022

    Fairer funding – will the wait be worth it?

    Chris Buss says that any review of local government finance must address social care, business rates and council tax, but the danger is that these are just too difficult to[…]

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    0
    • in Blogs · Funding · Levelling up
    • — 4 Apr, 2022

    Local government: from funding famine to balanced diet

    Room151’s editorial director discusses indications from ministers that they are willing to move away from competitive bidding and return to a more ‘balanced diet’ of funding. At Room151’s recent investment[…]

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  • 151 BRIEFS – WHAT’s NEW?

    • Inflation ‘disastrous’ for local services, warns LGA
    • Consultation opens into care charging reforms
    • ADASS survey: ‘worst fears confirmed for adult social care’
    • GMCA to unlock funds for home energy-efficiency upgrades
    • Levelling up committee calls for urgent boost to social care funding
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