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
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.[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
