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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Compulsion unlikely in sector-led improvement future

By Dan Peters | 13 May 2015

Councils that refuse to engage with sector-led improvement are unlikely to be forced to take part...

FINANCE

Leaving Las Vegas for financial accounts

By Tony Kirkham | 06 May 2015

Just back from Las Vegas – didn’t manage to win any money but did get married in true Vegas style.

BUSINESS

Another Tower Hamlets scandal likely thanks to new measures

By Dan Peters | 28 April 2015

Measures aimed at making it easier to dismiss Section 151 officers could make a Tower Hamlets-sty...

NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE

NAO hits back at critics

14 April 2015

National Audit Office (NAO) executive lead, Sue Higgins, has hit back at claims the organisation ...

FINANCE

Welsh councils face tipping point, warns auditor

By Jamie Hailstone | 02 April 2015

Councils in Wales are facing a ‘tipping point’ and need to improve their financial management, a ...

FINANCE

CIPFA urges bosses to use OBCM rules

By Jamie Hailstone | 31 March 2015

Finance bosses have called on councils and other public sector organisations to use Open Book Con...

FINANCE

The sector 'needs its own OBR'

By Michael Burton | 30 March 2015

Local government needs its own Office for Budget Responsibility to fill the gap left by the Audit...

WHITEHALL

Plugging the watchdog gap

By Heather Jameson | 24 March 2015

One of the first acts of the new secretary of state, Eric Pickles, when he came into post in 2010...

WHITEHALL

Town halls 'need their own OBR'

By Heather Jameson | 24 March 2015

Local government needs its own version of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) now the Audi...

FINANCE

Pickles is Diary gold

24 March 2015

Diary is dreading the General Election.