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  • 151 BRIEF

    What's New?

  • Soaring inflation and pay pressures to add £3.6bn to council budgets

    June 28, 2022

  • Underfunded social care reforms could ‘exacerbate workforce pressures’

    June 27, 2022

  • Nottingham City Council leader labels proposed intervention as “disappointing”

    June 27, 2022

  • Government preparing to intervene in Nottingham City Council

    June 23, 2022

  • Low earners at Surrey County Council receive 7.85% pay increase

    June 23, 2022

  • UK Infrastructure Bank launches plan to deploy £22bn of investment

    June 23, 2022

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    • Dan Bates
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    • Stephen Sheen
    • James Bevan
    • Steve Bishop
    • Cllr John Clancy
    • David Crum
    • Graham Liddell
    • Ian O’Donnell
    • Jackie Shute
  • Interviews
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Funding

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    • in Blogs · Funding · Net Zero
    • — 23 Feb, 2022

    How to be net zero by 2030

    If there’s a climate emergency, shouldn’t we have an emergency response? Mark Davies discusses how Lancaster City Council has been using the principles underlying the Civil Contingencies Act to help[…]

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    0
    • in Audit · Blogs · Funding · Resources · Treasury
    • — 18 Feb, 2022

    Stewardship of public funds: the way forward

    Weakened financial governance combined with the growing complexity of finance-raising schemes have produced huge challenges in local government. Grant Thornton’s Paul Dossett says that investing in finance leaders – both[…]

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  • 0
    • in Blogs · Development · Funding · Infrastructure · Levelling up · Resources · Treasury
    • — 14 Feb, 2022

    The s151: a prefect in a post-pandemic world

    Tony Travers discusses how the prefectorial role of the section 151 officer has become more significant as austerity has hit council budgets. He suggests that the s151 will become ever-more[…]

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    0
    • in Blogs · Funding · Treasury
    • — 8 Feb, 2022

    MRP consultation: don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater

    David Green calls on the government to listen to feedback on the Minimum Revenue Provision consultation and avoid unintended consequences. Local authorities can fund capital expenditure, but not revenue expenditure,[…]

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    • in Funding · Infrastructure · Interviews
    • — 7 Feb, 2022

    How a digital revolution is upon us

    Partner Content: Matt Norris from Gravis Capital Management talks to Room151 about the growing digital infrastructure sector, its key elements and the opportunities it presents to investors. R151: Can you[…]

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    0
    • in 151 News · Funding · Treasury
    • — 2 Feb, 2022

    Waste authority to issue green bond through UKMBA

    The UK Municipal Bonds Agency (UKMBA) has announced the issue of its first green bond – believed to be in the region of £250m to £400m – in what could[…]

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    • in Funding · Interviews · Levelling up · Resources
    • — 31 Jan, 2022

    ‘Funding cuts have changed the scale, shape and scope of local government’

    Paul Johnson, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, talks to Mike Thatcher about the impact of local government funding cuts and how best to reform the finance system.[…]

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    0
    • in Blogs · Development · Funding · Levelling up · LGPS · Resources · Treasury
    • — 27 Jan, 2022

    Mike Thatcher: constructing a new role for local government

    In his first monthly viewpoint, Room151’s new editorial director reflects on what has changed and what remains the same for local government finance over an eventful seven years. Having spent[…]

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  • 0
    • in Development · Funding
    • — 25 Jan, 2022

    Ten of the most innovative council-run housing projects

    Reports of the death of local authority house building have been greatly exaggerated. Mark Smulian looks at the resurgence of council activity in constructing new homes – for both social[…]

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    0
    • in Blogs · Funding · Treasury
    • — 20 Jan, 2022

    Councils overfunded last year but ‘chronic’ financial pressures remain

    Adrian Jenkins agrees local government failed to spend all its Covid grants. But ongoing pandemic expenses mean the money will be used and funding pressures will continue. Local government is[…]

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  • 151 BRIEFS – WHAT’s NEW?

    • Underfunded social care reforms could ‘exacerbate workforce pressures’
    • Nottingham City Council leader labels proposed intervention as “disappointing”
    • Government preparing to intervene in Nottingham City Council
    • Low earners at Surrey County Council receive 7.85% pay increase
    • UK Infrastructure Bank launches plan to deploy £22bn of investment
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