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BUSINESS
Local audit at a 'crossroads'
By Dan Peters | 12 August 2019
Local audit is at a ‘crossroads’ and needs to provide ‘better assurance and more impact for the p...
FINANCE
Number of delayed audit opinions rockets
By Dan Peters | 09 August 2019
The number of delayed audit opinions in local government has risen sharply this year, according t...
FINANCE
Rebuilding trust is a long-term ambition
By Rob Whiteman | 06 August 2019
Making local authority accounts more accessible to the modern-day user will help us shape a more ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Moray warned time is running out
By Martin Ford | 06 August 2019
Audit Scotland has told a council that it has 'limited time' to curb spending before its reserves...
FINANCE
Audit separation call
By Dan Peters | 05 August 2019
A call has been made for auditors’ value for money work to be separated out from their wider work...
FINANCE
Auditor raises reserves concerns at Redcar & Cleveland
By Martin Ford | 01 August 2019
The council has been warned it faces running out of reserves within two years.
BUSINESS
Report discovers little assurance on council-owned company governance
By Paul Marinko | 01 August 2019
A Hertsmere BC audit report has only given ‘limited assurance’ that its governance of council-own...
BUSINESS
KPMG winner as big four take more public contracts
By Martin Ford | 29 July 2019
KPMG has emerged as the chief beneficiary of an increase in public sector spending with the big f...
FINANCE
LGA: Audit deadline should be pushed back
By Dan Peters | 29 July 2019
The July audit deadline should be pushed back to September 30 for future years, the Local Governm...
FINANCE
Auditors may consider 'emerging risks'
By Dan Peters | 29 July 2019
Auditors could be given ‘more flexibility to consider emerging risks’ after the National Audit Of...
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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
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
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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
- EXCLUSIVE: Government reorganisation plan 'on track' despite Starmer resignation, McGovern insists
- Brighton faces 'unquantifiable' liability over equal pay claims
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