Local government funding and financial management.
A discussion of the recent performance of NSW local governments in delivering growth infrastructure, based on annual financial statements and population growth data – focusing on local government areas where effective and efficient delivery of growth infrastructure particularly matters.
Debbie Williams from Right Lane Consulting draws on her experience to share how councils can use well-developed internal corporate plans, sitting alongside their public council plans to create more impact. this briefing provides a useful framework that councils can apply to identify their own internal change priorities to feed into the corporate plan.
The Spending Review represents something of a mixed bag for English councils. The continuation of support for Covid-19 measures and the increase in core spending power will be welcomed, but the further delays to long-awaited reviews mean that inequalities in funding will continue.
DfE consultation Financial transparency of local authority maintained schools and academy trusts (July 2019) set out the Government’s view that financial transparency requirements are more exacting in the academies sector, where schools are funded and overseen directly by the DfE, than in the local authority maintained sector. The consultation document stated: ‘While both academy trusts…
This briefing summarises and assesses the Chancellor’s spending announcements made in Spending Review 2020; also summarised is the economic and fiscal assessment conducted by the Office For Budget Responsibility (OBR).
Today the Chancellor laid out his much-anticipated one-year Spending Review, in place of the Comprehensive Spending Review and three-year plan he had hoped to produce before the pandemic disrupted the economic backdrop. This on-the-day briefing brings you the highlights.
Today the Chancellor laid out his much-anticipated one-year Spending Review, in place of the Comprehensive Spending Review and three-year plan he had hoped to produce before the pandemic disrupted the economic backdrop. This on-the-day briefing brings you the highlights.
Budget housing measures Overall funding of €3.1 billion is provided for housing in 2021, an increase of over €730 million on the 2020 level. Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien, T.D., stated that this was the highest investment in housing by any Government in a single year, including ‘the biggest social housing…
Covid-19 is having a huge impact on council income and spending. A recent report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies examines the extent of gaps in funding for the current year and future years, ahead of the Spending Review on 25 November.
In this opinion piece, Graham Sansom – former CEO of the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA), and director of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government – looks into the regulation of local government revenues.
