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Room 151

  • 151 BRIEF

    What's New?

  • Slough welcomes commitment that Office for Local Government ‘will not be a burden’

    June 30, 2022

  • Homes England agrees strategic partnership with two authorities

    June 29, 2022

  • 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

  • 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
  • Briefs

Resources

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    • in Blogs · Resources · Treasury
    • — 26 Oct, 2021

    PFI, the end of LIBOR and the arrivel of SONIA

    The deadline is looming. Neil Waller and Shivana Sood examine the implications of an interest rate switch. The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority have advised that the[…]

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    0
    • in Blogs · Funding · Resources · Treasury
    • — 29 Sep, 2021

    Course aims to aid move from private sector to council accounting

    Training event: Tackling the political context and peculiarites of local government accounting. Negotiating the move from private sector to local government accounting can be daunting. But, according to one expert,[…]

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  • 0
    • in Blogs · Resources · Treasury
    • — 24 Sep, 2021

    Loans: The legal checklist for supporting enterprise

    Loans from local authorities to big companies recently made national newspaper headlines. They don’t happen without plenty of checks. Neil Waller and Paul McDermott offers a guide through the legalities.[…]

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    0
    • in Blogs · Resources · Technical
    • — 17 Aug, 2021

    What’s the benefit of using the PSAA?

    Conrad Hall examines the case for councils to undertake their own audit procurement instead of sticking with Public Sector Audit Appointments. To PSAA or not to PSAA: That is, if[…]

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  • 0
    • in Blogs · Resources · Richard Harbord · Treasury
    • — 17 Aug, 2021

    Richard Harbord: ‘Effective governance’ the key to commercial activity

    In a recent report the think tank Localis wrote that council commercial activity has come to be viewed by many as “inherently risky”. Richard Harbord argues that councils have a[…]

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    0
    • in Blogs · Funding · Resources · Treasury
    • — 17 Aug, 2021

    Andrew Hardingham: Holidays await but the ‘in’ box is brimming over

    Finance chiefs may be longing for time off but unfortunately there is a long list of issues still awaiting their attention. Andrew Hardingham offers a checklist you probably don’t want[…]

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    • in Blogs · Development · Funding · LGPS · Resources · Treasury
    • — 1 Jul, 2021

    Impact Awards: The winners are revealed

    The waiting is over, the hard work of completing the entries and  judging have come to fruition. It remains only to announce the winners. The winners of the inaugural CCLA/Room151[…]

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    0
    • in Blogs · Resources
    • — 30 Jun, 2021

    Don’t let council-owned companies spin out of control

    A small collection of failures has prompted many questions about council-owned companies. Helen Randall navigates the pitfalls and the safety mechanisms. In the aftermath of the Liverpool, Croydon and Nottingham[…]

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  • 0
    • in Blogs · Resources · Treasury
    • — 22 Jun, 2021

    151 officers must remain at the top table

    Too often in the current times section 151 officers find themselves outside the inner circle of management. Paul Jones argues this risks undermining governance and financial controls. A recent poll[…]

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    0
    • in Blogs · Resources · Technical
    • — 27 May, 2021

    Local authorities need to ‘invest in finance teams’

    Reforms means local government will soon see a new audit regulator but, writes Alison Ring, investing in local government finance teams and better reporting are priorities too. The government’s decision[…]

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  • 151 BRIEFS – WHAT’s NEW?

    • Homes England agrees strategic partnership with two authorities
    • Soaring inflation and pay pressures to add £3.6bn to council budgets
    • 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
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