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Jason Holland

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Leigh Whitehouse interview: councils have ‘got the power to get through’ financial difficulty

Low level of reserves and financial pressures could make it ‘impossible’ for Wirral to balance budget

CIPFA CEO Rob Whiteman to retire next year

IN PICTURES: highlights from the LATIF and Finance Directors’ Summit 2023

Improved pay offer leads to strike action suspension

Ongoing equal pay dispute leads to second Birmingham s114 notice

75,000 council assets worth £15bn sold in past 13 years, research finds

Government intervention at Birmingham will ‘protect the interests of residents and provide assurance to the sector’

Highland Council needs ‘unprecedented’ level of savings in light of possible £70m budget gap next year

Rowley welcomes progress at Slough but asks for quickening pace of change

Front line services ‘inevitably going to be impacted without funding’, warns Durham council

Leeds wants ‘complete revamp’ of local government funding amid five-year, £250m budget gap

Southend council: urgent action needed to ‘ride the storm’ and find calmer financial seas

Lancashire ‘£17m better off’ than forecast at end of 2022/23

‘Stark’ service cuts at Woking as ‘things will get worse before they get better’

Suffolk ‘not alone’ in facing financial challenges but needs ‘urgent’ remedial action

Final call: Last chance to take Room151’s treasury management survey

Cornwall gets creative to balance budget amid ‘enormous financial challenges’

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