Chancellor Rachel Reeves is under pressure to release an emergency bridging fund to reduce the impact of rising national insurance contributions on the care sector.

The Local Audit Office will not be able to force councils to amend their accounts in response to auditor concerns, the government has confirmed following fears over the body’s independence and ...

Michael Rees is head of financial consultancy, Sarah Reed is deputy direction of people solutions and Austen Morgan is workforce programme manager at NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support ...

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The English local audit crisis means the government is “flying blind” and failing to monitor the worsening financial health of local authorities, according to an influential group of MPs.

The government has launched a consultation into the “long overdue” resetting of the business rates retention system to ensure funding is targeted at areas of greatest need.

Public bodies are failing to act on early warning signals that could help avert a disaster on the scale of the Horizon IT scandal, according to a report.

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