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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 workforce and making more use of digital technology.
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...
FINANCE
Transformation is not a one-off project
By Iain Murray | 10 October 2025
Convenient temporary financial fixes may keep authorities afloat, but do not build the foundation...
FINANCE
Councils can't wait for reform
By Joanne Pitt | 22 September 2025
Drawing on assurance work by CIPFA, Joanne Pitt sets out the challenges driving the growing relia...
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- EXCLUSIVE: Councillor behaviour takes toll on chiefs, survey finds
- Basildon chief hits out at member behaviour
- Toxic member behaviour risks local government excellence
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
Director of Legal and Governance
£109,000
The new Cumbria Combined Authority has been established to unlock that potential. Apply for this job
Executive Director of Finance
£131,000
The new Cumbria Combined Authority has been established to unlock that potential. Apply for this job
Associate Director for Financial Management (Deputy Section 151 Officer)
£108,015 - £118,000 pa
Operational leadership that turns strategy into reality. Apply for this job
- EXCLUSIVE: Councillor behaviour takes toll on chiefs, survey finds
- Basildon chief hits out at member behaviour
- Toxic member behaviour risks local government excellence
- Hampshire and Portsmouth to challenge local government reorganisation
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
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