EVENTS

NEWS

CIPFA has responded to two consultations, the James Review of Education Capital Funding and the DfE consultation on School Funding Reform.  To access the responses please click below to view.

CIPFA response to Review of Capital Funding
CIPFA response on School Funding Reform

NEW Guide - Effective Governance and Financial Management in Academies

CIPFA has produced a new Guide to complement the Department for Education’s Academies Financial Handbook, to assist those responsible for governance of academies and the management of academy finances.  To learn more about the Guide, please click here

CIPFA has responded to the DfE’s consultation on the basis for the decision on the appropriate amount of Academies Funding Transfer for 2011-12 and 2012-13. Read the full response here.

LAAP 88 - Closure of the 2010/11 Accounts and Related Matters
The Local Authority Accounting Panel is issuing this bulletin to highlight areas that may cause authorities difficulties when closing the 2010/11 accounts, and in particular issues relating to the first time adoption of IFRS.

Introducing the Pupil Premium
CIPFA has welcomed the introduction of a Pupil Premium and responded to the Government Consultation School Funding 2011-12: Introducing a Pupil Premium with a number of comments on how it might work.

To download CIPFA's response in full, please click here [PDF file]

Would you like to join this CIPFA Panel?
The Panel welcomes expressions of interest from people who may seek to join it in due course as vacancies arise.

The Panel meets 3 to 4 times a year and assists the Institute’s policy and technical work in its subject area.  This typically includes the following types of activity:

• developing Institute responses to Government, professional bodies' and other bodies' consultation/discussion papers and exposure drafts
• developing, promoting and maintaining best practice, standards and guidelines
• producing and disseminating relevant advice and material for members and employers in the Panel’s subject area
• establishing positive and productive professional relationships with Government, government departments and agencies, the national audit bodies, professional regulators and other bodies falling within the Panel's subject area.

If you feel you could contribute to the Panel’s thinking and activities and would like to be considered for membership, in the first instance please contact julian.smith@cipfa.org.uk with a short summary of your CV, and of your reasons for interest in joining the Panel.

Response
The Children's Services Panel, jointly with the Further and Higher Education Panel, has responded to the draft National Commissioning Framework (NCF) developed by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Learning and Skills Council. To view the response, please click here.