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FINANCE
Gauging the benefit of productivity plans
By Abdool Kara | 30 April 2024
At the least the new Government requirement for productivity plans will give a platform for autho...
WHITEHALL
NAO warning over childcare reforms
By Mark Conrad | 23 April 2024
Just one in 10 councils predict they will meet the deadline to create 85,000 Government-funded ch...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
41st time lucky?
22 April 2024
After four decades of different initiatives which have failed to boost growth, Professor Martin J...
WHITEHALL
Hopes for regen scheme revived after Home Office scales back asylum plan
By Mark Conrad | 20 March 2024
A £300m council-led regeneration scheme threatened when Whitehall commandeered the site for asylu...
FINANCE
Homelessness inquiry launched by NAO
By Dan Peters | 13 March 2024
The National Audit Office (NAO) has launched an inquiry into homelessness as the issue piles pres...
NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
Time for change: An early review for the Code of Audit Practice
By Mike Newbury | 13 February 2024
Change is needed now to resolve the broader problems in the local audit market, and together with...
WHITEHALL
Tackling homelessness
By Paul Marinko | 05 February 2024
Homelessness is piling pressure on squeezed council budgets. The MJ and the National Audit Office...
FINANCE
NAO issues wake-up call
By Martin Ford | 17 January 2024
The National Audit Office (NAO) chief’s warnings to Whitehall over governance are a wake-up call ...
DIGITAL
Radical overhaul required to drag us into the 21st century
By Heather Jameson | 17 January 2024
From central government and the NHS, to police, prisons and local government: the ‘state of the s...
FINANCE
Audit reset to trigger slew of qualified and disclaimed opinions
By Martin Ford | 10 January 2024
The auditor general has warned of qualified and disclaimed audits being issued ahead of a reset t...
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Finance Development Accountant
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Sandwell Council’s Finance Division is seeking a proactive Finance Development Accountant on a full-time permanent basis Apply for this job
LGR Programme Director
Up to £120k
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