CIPFA

Retiring gracefully, by Nigel Keogh

5 November 2009 | Nigel Keogh

Major cuts in public sector pensions will lead to more people living in poverty, which will result in a greater burden on the taxpayer Read more...

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Obituary: Mike Fogden CB

23 October 2009 | Jeremy Cowper

Mike Fogden CB, who died on October 10, was a career civil servant who was dedicated to public administration and what it could deliver for people. A wide network of friends and colleagues in this country and overseas will miss the presence and warmth of a man who combined acute policy insight with successful – robust and pragmatic– management of large public sector delivery organisations, in particular, the Employment Service of which he was the first chief executive. Read more...

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Obituary: Derrik Hender

2 October 2009 | Peter Cordle, Frank Birch & Ken Rose

Derrik Hender, who has died aged 83, had a distinguished career in local government finance and as a chief executive. Read more...

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Fighting climate change, by John Maddocks

10 September 2009 | John Maddocks

As the public sector takes sustainability more seriously, accountants have a growing role to play Read more...

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Plan early for cutbacks

29 June 2009 | Steve Freer

One of the many interesting contributions to the CIPFA conference came from Philip Hammond, the shadow chief secretary. Referring to the Brown-Cameron spat about cuts or investment he said that, as he went around the country, more and more practitioners were not waiting for new pronouncements from the centre; they understood the necessity for, and the inevitability of, a period of retrenchment and were simply getting on and making their preparations. Read more...

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