DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES

Don't risk your foundations

By Don Peebles | 21 November 2018

As investment by local authorities in land and buildings this year hits the ‘record breaking’ lev...

FINANCE

Burns faces possible redundancy

By Mike Yuille | 14 November 2018

The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy’s immediate past president, Andy Burns,...

FINANCE

Hodge set to step down from Surrey

12 November 2018

Surrey CC leader Cllr David Hodge will announce his departure from the crisis hit authority at a ...

FINANCE

New ethics guidance for under-pressure officers

By Dan Peters | 01 November 2018

The organisation representing council finance officers has updated its ethics guidance as the pre...

FINANCE

Council hits back at 'illegitimate' claim

By Naomi Larsson | 31 October 2018

Newham LBC has denied claims that decisions to enter into controversial high-interest loans were ...

CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND ACCOUNTANCY

Lessons from 'failure'

By Ed Hammond | 24 October 2018

In the context of Northamptonshire’s failure and warnings of other councils on the edge of collap...

CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND ACCOUNTANCY

A ringing endorsement

24 October 2018

Diary has been to enough conferences to know that there is usually at least one person who forget...

WHITEHALL

SOLACE Summit: Commercialisation crackdown warning

By Dan Peters | 19 October 2018

A senior civil servant has warned councils the Government could crack down if commercialisation t...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

SOLACE Summit: CIPFA to seek compromise over resilience index

By Michael Burton | 19 October 2018

The controversial proposed financial resilience index is likely to be a ‘compromise’ between crit...

WHITEHALL

SOLACE Summit: Dawes rejects NHS cash grab idea

By Dan Peters | 19 October 2018

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG) top civil servant has encoura...