Brent

10/26 Housing pressures drive £9m Brent overspend

07/26 Social care and homelessness pressures fuel Brent overspend

03/26 Brent targets temporary accommodation overspend

03/26 Brent Pension Fund reduces equity and multi-asset allocations

03/26 Southwark to quit major IT shared services partnership

01/26 Brent borrowing up £51m with £10m LOBO repaid

11/25 Brent asks for visitor levy, railway and housing partnership

10/25 The role of shared services in today’s local government

10/25 Brent further restricts spending amid growing budget gap

07/25 Brent to find private sector homes for those ‘trapped’ in temporary accommodation

07/25 ‘Blueprint for survival’ needed at councils, not just a financial plan

07/25 Brent pension fund increases private market allocation

05/25 ‘Significant’ equal pay risks remain at Southampton despite ‘stabilised’ finances

05/25 LGPS investors take the lead in push against Shell’s LNG expansion

05/25 AI’s ‘transformative’ potential outlined in report – but AI itself says ‘long way to go’

04/25 Scaling up efficiencies could be key to successful AI adoption in local government

02/25 Brent to triple infrastructure allocation

02/25 Brent to triple infrastructure allocation

02/25 Brent cuts cash reserves by £56m to repay debt

11/24 Brent’s finances ‘continue to worsen’

10/24 Brent Pension Fund reduces position in London CIV’s multi-asset strategy

10/24 Brent warns of depleting council reserves and forecasts £14m overspend

08/24 Brent bolsters allocation to low carbon equity

01/24 Housing151 conference draws near seeking solutions to timely topics

06/23 Brent Council unable to meet accounts deadline due to previous audit delays

05/23 Sadiq Khan hits target of 20,000 new council homes

02/23 Blackman joins speakers at Housing151

11/22 Gove appoints finance commissioner for Liverpool

06/22 Homes England agrees strategic partnership with two authorities

02/20 Olympian task: Stepping up at Newham

10/19 Brentwood increases property holdings by £30m

10/19 Council set to purchase residential block to house staff and raise income

07/19 Stick or twist? De-risking vs growth assets for the fully funded

07/19 Brent to ponder £50m further education college loan

07/19 The future for outsourcing after Barnet formula cracks

06/19 Brent weighs odds on local lottery

05/19 London council set to pursue 50/50 development joint venture

03/19 Brentwood joins £1bn JV with Morgan Sindall

03/19 Bonds agency set to drop collective liability requirement

02/19 Brent primed to borrow more and increase investment returns

11/18 Back to basics: What’s the point of accounting for depreciation?

09/18 Bonfire of the LOBOs sweeps through Birmingham

09/18 What do public finance professionals and professional gamblers have in common?

05/18 Conrad Hall: The lesson in backgammon for LOBO management

05/18 Board moves to end auditor confusion over LOBOs

11/17 News Roundup: Northamptonshire’s ‘failure to secure value for money’, Brent appoints LPP, climate change guidance

09/17 News Roundup: Homelessness bond launched, councils castigated over rate reliefs, senior officers hardest hit by crisis