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NewOverview of Local Government Finance
Local government is big. In England there are 443 principal councils spending well over £100 billion a year. There are about 2 million local government employees in a wide range of services including teachers, police officers, fire fighters, social workers, librarians, planners, engineers and many more. Many more people work in organisations that supply goods and services to local government.
This is a course that helps you understand how all of the work done by local government is financed from taxes and other sources of income; and how that money is spent in a controlled and accountable way.
The course will use a mixture of theory and real-life stories to make what can be overly-technical material more accessible and understandable.
Local Government Finance is an online course within our Financial Management & Commercial Skills series. At the Civil Service College, we tailor our courses to each attendee’s role and organisations, ensuring that each delegate gets the most out of the training. Our courses and trainers are continuously updated and evaluated to ensure that we are always delivering the best service possible.
The course is structured in four parts: funding, budgeting, accounting and controlling. Thecontents of each part is outlined below:
Funding
Budgeting
Accounting
Controlling
This training is for anyone with an interest in local government finance but it is especially useful for elected councillors and for officers who have recently joined local government (at any level).
The course is grounded in the system of funding for local government in England. Whilst of general application to local government in Scotland and Wales, the details of local government funding is different in those devolved administrations.
After completing the course, delegates will be able to:
10:00 - 16:00
£495 + VAT
MS Teams or Zoom
8 June 2021 Book8
Gary Bandy is a Chartered Public Finance Accountant with over 30 years' experience of public financial management.
Read BioGary Bandy is a Chartered Public Finance Accountant with over 30 years' experience of public financial management. He has been an independent consultant since 2005 and has taught public financial management at several universities in the UK as well as sharing his expertise with public servants from many countries including Sri Lanka, Maldives, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, China and Kazakhstan.
In 2017 he authored a MOOC (massive open online course) about managing public money for the UK’s Open University. He has built on that experience to create a number of online courses about various aspects of public financial management.
Gary is also a successful author. His first book, Financial Management and Accounting in the Public Sector, was described as “an innovative and wonderful addition to the literature of public sector management.” His latest book, International Public Financial Management: Essentials of Public Sector Accounting was jointly published by Routledge and CIPFA in 2019.
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