General Sector News

Intermediate External Audits

All councils in England should by now have received an 'instruction' email from their external auditor.​ Those councils selected for the '5% samp...

Published 3 April 2019

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New Principal Councils come into effect

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Published 2 April 2019

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Members Survey competition winners

Many thanks to the 460 members who kindly took the trouble to complete this year’s membership survey, which was a 20% increase on the replies to ...

Published 1 April 2019

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Independent high street firms get business rate boost

Thousands of independent high street premises are to benefit from business rate cuts from today, under a two year Government scheme that will cut b...

Published 1 April 2019

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Increase in National Living Wage

The revised rates for the National Living Wage now apply from 1st April 2019. These are the minimum that all Employers are required to pay per hour...

Published 1 April 2019

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NALC says Charter Trustees have had their day

Charter trustee bodies were created under the Local Government Act, 1972 for the purpose of preserving the Mayoralty and civic heritage of former b...

Published 1 April 2019

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Council merger delayed by Brexit

The BBC is reporting that a council merger could be delayed by the Brexit negotiations. South Northamptonshire, Northampton, Daventry and Northampt...

Published 28 March 2019

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Annual Return Errors Costing Councils Money

The Chairman of the body procuring external auditors for local councils in England has expressed concern that more councils than previously are not...

Published 28 March 2019

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Pointless street signs to be removed

The Department for Transport has published guidelines for councils saying that pointless road signs should be removed amid warnings that they waste...

Published 25 March 2019

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PKF Littlejohn External Auditor Webinar

PKF Littlejohn, the external auditors to the majority of local councils in England have recorded a training webinar which updates listeners with th...

Published 21 March 2019

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