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  • 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

Steve Bishop

  • City Deals, new local government and the LGA 0
    • in Recent Posts · Steve Bishop
    • — 25 Apr, 2013

    City Deals, new local government and the LGA

    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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    Sleepy treasurers must change before councils go bust 0
    • in Blogs · Recent Posts · Steve Bishop
    • — 18 Apr, 2013

    Sleepy treasurers must change before councils go bust

    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.[…]

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  • Parishes face council tax referenda debacle 0
    • in Funding · Steve Bishop
    • — 8 Mar, 2013

    Parishes face council tax referenda debacle

    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[…]

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    The great Council Tax Reduction Scheme caper 0
    • in Blogs · Funding · Steve Bishop
    • — 28 Feb, 2013

    The great Council Tax Reduction Scheme caper

    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[…]

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  • Settlement fallout part 2: yet more pessimism required 0
    • in Funding · Recent Posts · Steve Bishop
    • — 17 Jan, 2013

    Settlement fallout part 2: yet more pessimism required

    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[…]

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    Settlement fallout: part 1 0
    • in Funding · Recent Posts · Steve Bishop
    • — 10 Jan, 2013

    Settlement fallout: part 1

    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[…]

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  • In and out of the pool 0
    • in Funding · Recent Posts · Steve Bishop
    • — 6 Dec, 2012

    In and out of the pool

    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[…]

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    Settlement date blues 1
    • in Blogs · Recent Posts · Resources · Steve Bishop
    • — 2 Nov, 2012

    Settlement date blues

    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[…]

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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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