Crawley

06/26 Coastal West Sussex unitary ‘would need long-term financial support’

01/26 Local Audit Office – where do we stand?

08/25 Inner London ‘biggest loser’ in funding reforms as deprived areas may fare less well than expected: IFS

05/25 Research links homelessness pressures to eroding council reserves

02/25 Audit debacle: do LAO reforms tackle the roots of the crisis?

12/24 Backstop date leads to ‘unprecedented’ number of disclaimed opinions

06/24 ‘Preventable crisis’: one in four councils spending 5% of budgets on temporary accommodation

12/23 2023 in review: the best stories in local government finance

10/23 Temporary accommodation presenting ‘real risk’ to council finances

10/23 Section 114 ‘likely’ at Crawley if it provides housing for Chagossians without government funding

07/23 Spiralling temporary accommodation costs pushing Hastings Borough Council to the brink

06/23 FRC to propose policy direction to tackle council accounts backlog

01/23 BCP audit delay ‘real concern for council’

01/23 Crawley BC proposes scheme to deliver 300 affordable homes

12/22 PSAA: audit delays reaching ‘increasingly alarming’ level

10/22 Local audit fees set to rise by 150% as Deloitte and BDO exit market

07/22 Nine out of ten FDs attribute audit delays to auditor resourcing issues

07/21 MPs demand “urgent” action to repair local government audit

12/19 Room 151’s top news stories of 2019

08/19 Extra £9m for councils to prepare for Brexit

08/19 Auditors and PSAA slammed after jump in accounts deadline failures

07/19 LGA says audit delays prove it was right over 2014 accounts deadline warning

04/19 Mutual launches to compete in insurance market

03/19 Crawley earmarks £7m for investment properties

01/19 Brexit fears hit council property investments as contingency funds confirmed

01/19 PSAA begins as Appointing Person for public sector audits

09/18 Audit body appoints new chief executive