Current category: Finance and Resources
02/08/2018
Fair and Sustainable Funding for Essential Local Services – All our communities rely on local government.pdf – Aug-2018
The Welsh Local Government Association makes the case for Fair and Sustainable Funding for Essential Local Services.
02/07/2018
The Future Shape of Procurement in Wales – The Review of Value Wales and the National Procurement Service.pdf – Jul-2018
This paper provides feedback from a workshop involving Heads of Procurement in local government held in July 2018. Its purpose was to provide the senior local government officers perspective on the Value Wales/National Procurement Service review process, the content of the review to date and the needs and demands from the perspective of local authorities.
02/01/2018
Cost of Caring for an Ageing Population.pdf – Jan-2018
Welsh Local Government Association response to the National Assembly for Wales, Finance Committee's inqury - Cost of caring for an ageing population.
10/10/2017
Local Government settlement – the War of Attrition continues, says WLGA
The local government settlement announced by Welsh Government continues an eight-year run of real terms reductions to local government funding….
03/10/2017
WLGA Leader says “Austerity is an idea with a great future behind it”
The publication of the Welsh Government draft budget today shows that local public services will continue to face significant challenges. The…
03/08/2017
WLGA Press Statement on R (on the application of Forge Care Homes Ltd and others) (Appellants) v Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and others (Respondents) [2017] UKSC 56 On appeal from [2016] EWCA Civ 26
In responding to today’s Supreme Court Judgment, the final ruling in relation to Funded Nursing Care (FNC), the WLGA is…
02/07/2017
Local Government Pressures – Finance Sub Group Meeting 12 July 2017.pdf – Jul-2017
This paper summarises the main budget pressures facing local authorities across Wales.
02/06/2017
WLGA Evidence – Financial Implications of New Legislation – Finance Committee.pdf – Jun-2017
Local Government is a vital partner for the Welsh Government in delivering its broad social and economic outcomes. There are clearly few areas where councils do not make a crucial contribution to national outcomes.
02/03/2017
WLGA Briefing – Spring Budget March 2017.pdf – Mar-2017
This is the second major financial announcement since Brexit and the first Spring Budget from Phillip Hammond MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer. It will be the last Spring Budget as the current arrangements will be replaced by an Autumn Budget and a Spring Statement, the latter being a lower key announcement that will respond to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts.
02/02/2017
The strategic approach of councils to income generation and charging.pdf – Feb-2017
This a Welsh Local Government Association response to the National Assmebly for Wales Public Accounts Commitee's evidence session on the strategic approach of councils to income generation and charging.
02/03/2016
Ambition for Change – Aiming Higher – Independent Commission on Local Government Finance Wales.pdf – Mar-2016
The 'Ambition for Change: Aiming Higher' report offers a series of reforms to improve the complex workings of local government finance. Key recommendations include measures to increase the share of council income raised locally, reduce hypothecation and improve multi-year financial planning.