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The government will not immediately back a key recommendation of the Redmond review that a single body should be created to manage and regulate local authority audit, it announced this afternoon. The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government said the recommendation of Sir Tony Redmond in his review of council audit clashed with its intention not to create new arms-length bodies and that it did not with to “recreate” the Audit Commission. It will examine whether an existing body working in the field can take on a system leadership role. However extra money to support local author...

By Nicholas Dobson14 December 2020 Nicholas Dobson The struggle to make ends meet was neatly summarised by Dickens’ optimistically hapless Mr Micawber: ‘Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery… in short you are for ever floored. As I am!’ But while individuals like Micawber are generally responsible only to themselves for balancing the budget, local authorities have an obligation to use public resources prudently. This fiduciary (trustee) duty was cl...