Policy and insight

Clarification on compliance with Financial Management (FM) Code

Read our clarifications of the CIPFA FM Code, acknowledging the additional extraordinary burdens being faced by local authorities, here.

CIPFA Statement on S.114 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988

Read our latest statement on S.114 notices here.

Local government FAQs

Read our Frequently Asked Questions for advice on local government issues arising from the coronavirus crisis.

CIPFA publications

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, CIPFA continues to support the public sector with help and guidance via its expert publications.

As ever, all our titles can be bought individually or as part of a CIPFA Publications subscription. A subscription provides you, and all your colleagues within your organisation, with online versions compromising all the public finance technical information and guidance you need – as soon as they are published. We are still printing hard copies of those titles that are available in that format, such as the Code of Practice on Local Authority Accounting in the United Kingdom 2020/21, and its Guidance Notes and Disclosure Checklist, which will be released later in 2020.

You can access new CIPFA public finance titles and over 100 titles from our back catalogue covering accounting, financial management, treasury, pensions and more. Find out more about a Publications subscription. You can also find out more about our range of publications on our Publications homepage, and please direct any enquiries concerning publications to customer servicesor call 020 7543 5600.

Our newest publication, The Road to Reform: COVID-19 as a catalyst for change in funding social care is available here. 

CIPFA Thinks

Our experts analyse the issues facing the public sector during the coronavirus crisis.

• Councils need more money to survive in the longer term
• Crisis underlines necessary focus on prevention for the public sector
• Good governance more important than ever during this crisis
• The many known unknowns amid the coronavirus crisis
• The importance of reserves
• Fraud in times of crisis
• Don't leave councils facing section 114 notices over coronavirus
• Questioning the quantum
• The UK economic outlook is grim
• The pandemic is yet another pressure on housing for councils to bear
• Keep calm and carry on: leadership in a crisis
• Rising to the challenge of COVID-19 as a senior leader in the police
• Commercialisation in the wake of COVID-19
• From crisis to recovery
• Fraud in the age of COVID-19
• Slipping through the cracks
• Social care: the forgotten front line
• Time to wake up to social care reform
• An investment in prevention
• The care home sector 'entered the pandemic on the back foot'
• Never let a crisis go to waste

Local government COVID-19 bulletins

You can read our most recent local government COVID-19 bulletin here.

Health newsletter

Health news - 05/05/2020