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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[…]
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[…]
Partner Content: Eoin Murray from Federated Hermes looks at the prospects for inflation, interest rates and the transition, orderly or disorderly, to net zero. In the world of sustainable investment, we[…]
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.[…]
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[…]
Uncertainty remains across the public sector, and is unlikely to be resolved any time soon. Those responsible for local government finance can expect another frustrating and testing year ahead. New[…]
Andrew Hardingham marks the 10th anniversary of Room151 by looking back at a decade of local government finance. Firstly, a statement of the obvious: Every local authority section 151 officer[…]
“There’s never been a time when it’s been more important to be clear about governance and about the risks that our local authorities face.” So says Richard Harbord, former local[…]
As COP26 looms how have councils acted to tackle climate change and what do they need from the latest climate change summit? Mark Davies In the Netherlands by 1860 the[…]
Sponsored article: Paul Mueller explores the possibility of a hike in the bank rate Market pricing* for the UK bank rate had, until recently, been relatively quiet for some time[…]
