International aid from official donors has fallen for the first time in five years, dropping by 7.1% in real terms in 2024, according to preliminary data.

Ministers have rejected transition plans by two Local Government Pension Scheme pools and told them to merge with other pools.

Ministers have rejected transition plans by two Local Government Pension Scheme pools and told them to merge with other pools.

The unsustainable rise in health spending could be ended and save the UK £21bn a year if new approaches to NHS reform are adopted, a leading think-tank claims.

Jeffrey Matsu is chief economist at CIPFA. With extensive experience in connecting policy with practice through evidence-based research, he works with partner governments, accountancy bodies and the ...

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This is the 15th in the series of PF Perspectives, produced by CIPFA and Public Finance to stimulate discussion on key public finance and policy issues. These essays by public sector leaders and ...

Peter Worth is managing director of Worth Technical Accounting Solutions Limited and a member of CIPFA’s Local Authority Accounting Panel and Pensions Advisory Network ...

Poor quality data and obsolete technology are hindering government plans to roll out the adoption of artificial intelligence across the public sector, a leading group of MPs has warned.

A few months before the Procurement Act 2023 went live at the end of February, we polled the public sector finance and spend leaders attending one of our webinars on how ready they felt for the ...

David Lyford-Tilley is CIPFA’s head of technical and standards ...