The LGA is holding a series of webinars, inviting officers from councils who have previously undergone local government reorganisation to reflect on their experience. This webinar focussed on the theme of financial planning and transformation.
This first guidance note focuses on how to maintain strong financial governance throughout the LGR journey and why a focus on financial sustainability is so important in the period up to vesting day.
This second finance guidance note focuses on the importance of maintaining comprehensive and accurate financial records through local government reorganisation.
This third guidance note focuses on the high-level principles that can be used to develop estimated expenditure, funding and balance sheet positions for the new unitary council/s.
This fourth LGR finance guidance note focuses on the importance of understanding councils’ existing asset bases and capital programmes in order to agree how these will transfer to new unitary council/s as part of LGR.
