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FINANCE
Call for long-term EFS plan
By Dan Peters | 15 October 2026
The Government must turn exceptional financial support (EFS) into a ‘managed recovery regime rather than a series of annual decisions’, a public finance chief has urged.
FINANCE
EFS: A symptom of a system under strain
By Phil Rook | 06 August 2026
Local government needs a funding framework that supports statutory services sustainably rather th...
IMPROVEMENT
Council urged to take immediate steps to cut costs
By Neil Merrick | 23 June 2026
A council has been warned it must take immediate steps to cut costs, including ‘reshaping’ its wo...
FINANCE
Fifty years on: Lessons from the Layfield report on local council funding
By Owen Mapley | 29 April 2026
Half a century from the Layfield Report on local government finance, many of the issues it raised...
CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND ACCOUNTANCY
CIPFA warning over profit capping reforms
By Dan Peters | 23 February 2026
Financial oversight and profit capping reforms to the children’s residential care market may fail...
FINANCE
What CIPFA's Financial Resilience Index reveals about risk and reform
By Florence Bastos | 20 January 2026
CIPFA and Infoshare+’s Financial Resilience Index shows that better planning horizons will not be...
FINANCE
Prevention, people and the future of public services in Wales
By Joanne Pitt | 05 December 2025
The idea of prevention being both necessary and achievable became a thread that ran through the ...
PREVENTION
For the first time, prevention can be mapped and measured
By Iain Murray | 24 November 2025
By mapping spend, finance and service teams can build a shared understanding of what prevention l...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Fresh finance officer warning
By Dan Peters | 12 November 2025
The recruitment crisis for under-pressure section 151 officers is destined to get worse, a local ...
PREVENTION
The true value of prevention
By Zachary Scott | 10 November 2025
A project that makes investment in prevention visible in financial terms shows that clarity on wh...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
LGA: Costs pushing many to financial brink
By Dan Peters | 17 October 2025
Emergency government bailout agreements for councils are at risk of becoming ‘normalised’ as cost...
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- Rayner expected to send in commissioners to Bedford BC
- EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs push for councils to be viewed equally as Government seeks to rewire the state
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