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Introduction to
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21 April
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Assurance over
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6 May
Police Audit
Committee Members Development Day
May
Assurance over
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Joint webinar with
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May
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News of the week
New Dates for the
Financial Statements and the Annual Governance Statement 2019/20
The final regulations
are due to be made this week which will extend the statutory
audit deadlines for 2019/20 for all local public authorities,
apart from health service bodies. The Accounts and Audit
(Amendment) Regulation 2020 will amend the 2015 regulations for
English authorities and put back the dates for completion of the
draft accounts, public inspection and final publication.
The publication date
will move from 31 July to 30 November. The requirement to hold
the public inspection of accounts in June will be removed and
instead authorities must commence it on or before the first
working day of September. This means that the draft accounts must
be approved by 31 August at the latest.
News Roundup
Audit
Departmental Overview Local authorities 2019
Briefing from the NAO
on the structure of local authorities, recent NAO reports on the
sector (including Local Authority Governance) and current issues.
National Audit Office
Draft Code of Audit Practice - invitation to
comment
Audit Scotland has
extended the consultation deadline to 24 April 2020.
Audit Scotland
Schools financial value standard
Local authorities are
advised to exercise discretion on how and when they implement
some of the usual annual requirements within their scheme for
financing schools.
Department for
Education
Governance
Regulations for online meetings issued
The new regulations
will allow authorities to conduct meetings, in public, by a
variety of online means. New briefing from the BGF.
CIPFA
Covid-19 and the 2019-20 council accounts:
Q&A with Don Peebles, CIPFA
Simplifying this year's
accounting requirements could help relieve the burden on local
authority finance officers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Public Finance
Directors disqualified after abandoning care
homes, diverting council funds
The directors of two
care homes in the Midlands have been disqualified after they
diverted council funds before abandoning elderly residents and
staff, the Insolvency Services has revealed.
Local Government Lawyer
Keeping tomorrow on today’s agenda: the vital
role of directors of resources
The risk every council
faces is that the outbreak derails the delivery of savings,
resulting in an unsustainable future.
Public Finance
Risk
Coronavirus pandemic set to cause deepest
recession since financial crisis
The economy is set to
decrease by around 0.5% in the first quarter of this year, before
sharply contracting by 15% in the second quarter, according to
Cebr’s UK Prospects Report.
Public Finance
Coronavirus 'set to increase need for investment
in social housing'
The economic fall-out
from the Covid-19 pandemic will require higher levels of
investment in social housing, according to the Chartered
Institute of Housing.
Public Finance
Councils halt services to prioritise Covid-19
response
Councils have warned
that a number of services are being stopped or scaled back as
they focus on dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Public Finance
Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the
pandemic spreads
In Italy and Spain
daily deaths are plateauing but the UK and US are still in the
acceleration phase.
Financial Times
Government cracks down on spread of false
coronavirus information online
Specialist units across
government are working at pace to combat false and misleading
narratives about coronavirus.
Cabinet Office
Counter Fraud
Two thirds of local authorities think fraud is a
major risk
The Tackling Fraud in
the Public Sector study, commissioned by CIPFA, found that 69% of
professionals, senior managers or heads of department believe
poor organisational controls leave local authorities vulnerable
to fraud.
Public Finance
Cheating or competing
How to know the
difference. CMA resources on anti-competitive behaviours.
Competition and Markets
Authority
Information Governance
Coronavirus: notification to organisations to
share information
Notification to
healthcare organisations, GPs, local authorities and arm's length
bodies that they should share information to support efforts
against coronavirus
Department of Health
and Social Care
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