The Government body in charge of councils’ performance in England should be extended so it become...
Council chiefs have been told by Whitehall officials they may have to wait until less than a week...
A Government minister this week vowed to return to finance reform after years of delay to the fai...
An umbrella body is pushing for the Welsh Government to help plug a £559m funding gap so councils...
The boss of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) has dismissed calls...
A sector finance expert has warned councils will have to continue making ‘unpalatable’ decisions.
A council that banned all non-essential spending more than a year ago is still on the brink of a ...
Four councils have joined a two-year project aimed at coming up with a methodology for calculatin...
Owen Mapley says the Government needs to implement reforms 'alongside measures to address the fin...
The new Government has yet to make a decision on how it will fix local audit in the longer term, ...
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