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FINANCE
'Urgent action' required by auditors to improve
By Martin Ford | 28 October 2022
The finance watchdog has said the number of local government audits requiring significant improve...
FINANCE
Council faces 'nuclear option', auditor warns
By Martin Ford | 28 October 2022
The threat of a statutory recommendation is hanging over Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP...
FINANCE
Moving towards sound financial management
By Steve Freer | 26 October 2022
Steve Freer sets out some of the actions which need to be considered to achieve real progress in ...
FINANCE
Councillors call for Government inspection
By Martin Ford | 17 October 2022
Warrington Council members have called for a Government inspection of its finances.
RECRUITMENT
'Mistrust and dysfunction' at Middlesbrough
By Martin Ford | 17 October 2022
A breakdown in relations between officers and members at Middlesbrough Council has been highlight...
WHITEHALL
Council audit failures hit Government accounts
By Dan Peters | 14 October 2022
Failures in the local audit market in England and Wales mean central Government has ‘poorer quali...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Unitaries are not an everywhere panacea
By Richard Stokoe | 04 October 2022
Based on his experience of living in Cornwall, Richard Stokoe concludes the current rural unitary...
BUSINESS
Warning of £75m audit fee increase
By Dan Peters | 03 October 2022
Experts have warned councils could be hit by a £75m increase to their audit fees as details of th...
BUSINESS
'Deteriorating' officer-member relationships highlighted
By Dan Peters | 22 September 2022
‘Deteriorating senior officer and member relationships over a number of years’ has been a theme i...
WHITEHALL
Whitehall must be more 'ambitious' when it comes to affordable homes
By Heather Jameson | 21 September 2022
The Government’s programme for delivering affordable housing could be more ‘ambitious’ when it co...
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