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If you can't see the Public Finance Daily email below click here to view the web version   News and comment from Public Finance - the official magazine of CIPFA   6 June 2014 | Public Finance Home | Contact us | Sign up         Unpredictable road funding 'risking public value' The government has been warned that a lack of consistency in the funding of road maintenance for both the Highways Agency and local authorities is putting public value at risk. The National Audit Office said that stop-start spending deals made planning the necessary work across England more difficult...       News DoH consults on implementation of care reforms The Department of Health is consulting on how councils should be tasked with introducing the government’s care and support reforms... Teachers back performance-related pay, poll finds Over half of teachers in English state schools support using pupils’ progress and results to determine whether they should receive a pay increase, a poll for the Sutton Trust has found... Stevens sets out fresh NHS funding approach NHS England will increasingly link funding to prevention, care quality and patient feedback, chief executive Simon Stevens has told the NHS Confederation's conference... Sturgeon backs higher Scottish minimum wage Scottish Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has welcomed a report from a panel of experts calling for an independent Scotland to raise the minimum wage, inflation-link benefits and scrap the ‘bedroom tax'... More news     Public Finance International ECB introduces first-ever negative interest rate The European Central Bank has cut its main interest rate to a record low of 0.15% and will start charging banks to deposit money for the first time in a bid to boost spending across the eurozone, it has announced... More international news     Opinion In the teeth of a crisis, by John Thornton As local government faces up to a growing funding gap, it should be investing in research into the role that digital technologies can play... Going Dutch on pensions? By Michael Johnson The introduction of Dutch-style collective pensions was a centrepiece of the Queen’s Speech. So what are the potential risks and benefits of going down this road? More opinion     Contracts & Finance Manager Hudson  £500 - £650 per day Personal Tax Managers - Edinburgh & Glasgow (FT/PT) CIPFA Recruitment Services  £Competitive Specialist ‎Organisational Design and Costing EPO  €4,200-€8,000 per month, depending on experience More public finance jobs Jobs: South East Jobs: North West Jobs: East Mid. Jobs: West Mid. More regions CIPFA Publications Events     Click here to unsubscribe from this email