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Steve Bishop is Strategic Director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils City Deals, and other funding initiatives, are changing local government in a way we’ve never seen[…]
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Steve Bishop is Strategic Director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils City Deals, and other funding initiatives, are changing local government in a way we’ve never seen[…]
Steve Bishop is Strategic Director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils In my professional career in local government finance, there has never been a more exciting time.[…]
Last week I talked about the Council Tax Reduction Scheme. I talked about some of the problems it has caused for districts, with hundreds of different schemes about to come[…]
What fun we have been having with the Council Tax Reduction Scheme. First we had the government telling us that they are only going to provide, on average, 90% of[…]
We’ve all been grappling with the different components of the government’s new funding regime. Under the old regime it was pretty simple: the split of how each council’s needs-based grant[…]
As Section 151 officers will be only too aware, the settlement came late this year and – as I predicted here in November – it has caused more than a[…]
Steve Bishop is Strategic Director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils A couple of weeks ago we received the latest round of modifications to the ongoing saga[…]
Steve Bishop is Strategic Director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils In the last few years the settlement – the Government announcement when we learn how much[…]
Hillier confirmed as keynote speaker for LATIF/FDs’ Summit: Dame Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for Room151’s combined Local Authority Treasurers Investment Forum (LATIF) and FDs Summit. The… dlvr.it/ST70F7 pic.twitter.com/hxV676Iley
Councils’ funding at risk due to ‘undercounting’ in census data: Population estimates in London and Manchester may have been significantly underestimated in the 2021 census potentially threatening government funding for frontline services in these… dlvr.it/ST707J pic.twitter.com/VncIyaXa01
Gove at LGA: councils to receive two-year financial settlement: Michael Gove has announced that councils will receive a two-year financial settlement from next year to provide authorities with “financial certainty” and allow them to plan ahead. The… dlvr.it/ST0kSV pic.twitter.com/wxL3UM4sGO
LGPS valuations: the digital journey: Rob Bilton explains how technology is helping to deliver one of the most complex data exercises in the world of public sector pensions. The 2022 valuations for LGPS funds in[...] dlvr.it/ST0kMq pic.twitter.com/VxjSPC2Uvo
Conrad Hall: ‘more sophisticated’ regulation needed for local government: The chair of the CIPFA/LASAAC Code Board has questioned the sophistication of financial regulation in local government and the continuing focus of the Department for Levelling Up,… dlvr.it/SSnPBV pic.twitter.com/G5d7JCWF8c
Slough Council approves plans to restructure finance department: Slough Borough Council has approved plans to restructure its finance department to enhance capacity and capability and to address a “significant weakness” in the function. The local… dlvr.it/SSf8DG pic.twitter.com/l5lmyHmkBg