Queen’s Speech: public sector pay-offs limited

 

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   4 June 2014 | Public Finance Home | Contact us | Sign up         Queen’s Speech: public sector pay-offs limited Plans to limit pay-offs to senior public service managers and moves to increase the amount of public sector land available for development were among the measures in today’s Queen’s Speech. A total of 11 bills and three draft bills were laid at the start of the last parliamentary session before the general election...       News IFS: independent Scotland faces £1.2bn funding gap Spending cuts or tax increases would be needed in an independent Scotland to meet the estimated £1.2bn cost of policies in the Scottish Government’s independence white paper, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said... Reform council tax, says European Commission The European Commission has urged the government to reform council tax to remove ‘distortions’ caused by basing the system on property values more than two decades old... LEP reforms ‘could create transport funding gaps’ Plans to devolve funding for transport projects to local enterprise partnerships could mean that infrastructure in some parts of the England gets left behind, MPs have said... LGA calls for five-year social care settlement A five-year funding settlement for adult social care is needed to avoid a crisis in provision, councils have warned... More news     Public Finance International Eurozone inflation falls to 0.5% Eurozone inflation fell to 0.5% in May, down from 0.7% in April, raising expectations that an interest rate cut is now a ‘foregone conclusion’... More international news     Opinion The real care home scandal, by Claudia Wood Care homes get a bad press, sometimes deservedly. But the bigger issue is chronic underfunding and rock-bottom pay for their staff... Housing: the UK disease, by Malcolm Prowle The European Commission is right to criticise housing policy in the UK. We can only hope that a future government sees the need to bring a degree of stability, affordability and sanity to the housing market... More opinion     Features The tailor-made benefits package, by Gill Kelly Employees need to be motivated and feel engaged in their work. If staff resign without good reason, it’s time to take a look at your employee benefits package and tailor an offer that helps hang on to them... More features     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