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The government is minded to exclude councils’ commercial income from calculations on how much funding they receive from central government, according to a senior official working on the Fair Funding[…]
The provisional local government finance settlement for 2020/21 is the “least worst” for local government in a decade, according to the chair of the Local Government Association resources board. Speaking[…]
Two Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pools and two funds have joined a group of investors calling on Barclays bank to cease fossil fuel investment. Brunel Pension Partnership, LGPS Central,[…]
Public spending watchdog the Accounts Commission has flagged up transparency failings in its latest annual report on the financial health of local authorities in Scotland. The body said an analysis[…]
Councils are losing some £250m a year through business rates avoidance, equivalent to 1.0% of the total of this income source. That claim has come from the Local Government Association[…]
The UK Municipal Bonds Agency is poised to launch its long-awaited first bond within weeks, with a second issue set to follow before the end of the financial year. Councillor[…]
Local government audit failed to reach optimum performance levels this year: Deadlines were missed and key staff lost. Things will need to improve in 2020, says Stephen Sheen Well, that[…]
By definition Christmas messages should be about a new start, they should be joyous and full of hope for what the next year may bring. Regrettably it is difficult to[…]
Now that the dust has settled after the General Election and we have at least some prospect of a “strong and stable” government, what can local government wish for in[…]
West Berkshire Council is exploring proposals to set up a community bond to fund a green infrastructure project aimed at achieving the authority’s carbon-reduction ambitions. Executive committee members are being[…]
