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Supporting People: The Essential Guide for Finance Practitioners (Fully Revised Fifth Edition 2008)
CIPFA's Supporting People guide provides comprehensive finance coverage of this important and constantly changing programme. Written by independent consultant and former City of Westminster Finance Director, Paul Cook, this major revision for 2008 embraces:
- Further steps towards incorporating Supporting People in local area agreements
- CLG's national strategy for Supporting People
- The funding settlement for 2008-09 following Comprehensive Spending Review 2007
- The new Supporting People Distribution Formula analysed in detail
- New chapter on Supporting People services with financial management pointers
- Guidance on the grant conditions for 2008-09
- Working with the Third Sector
- Revised Supporting People key lines of enquiry and the future of inspection arrangements
- Supporting People in Wales.
Expert financial management of this programme is at a premium, as councils use the programme to help vulnerable clients. This new edition of CIPFA's guide is, therefore, required reading on this complex area. It provides a step-by-step guide to the financial elements of Supporting People.
An Introductory Guide to Housing Finance in England (Fully Revised Fifth Edition 2008)
This revised guide has now been broken down into 33 shorter, more focused chapters. This gives better coverage of the full range of local authority housing functions. Each chapter opens with a separate and very accessible outline of the main issues. This will be particularly helpful to the more generalist reader. Statutory duties and discretionary powers are summarised, with the new national performance indicators. Where relevant an extension of the chapter is then provided which drills down much more deeply into the technical issues.
Councillors' Guide to Local Government Finance 2008 Fully Revised Edition (2008)
Edited by Anna Capaldi, Rita Hale & Associates Limited
The constantly changing nature of local government finance is a key factor in the incessant demand for CIPFA's Councillors' Guide, which is fully revised each year.
The guide provides a sound introduction to local government finance for newly elected members and up-to-date information on current issues for experienced councillors. Feedback tells us that it is also seen as a handy reference point and useful training resource for practitioners.
The 2008 edition of the guide is available as a durable hardback book, and also as a CD-ROM. Included on the disc is a powerful search function allowing the user to quickly find their requested material.
Further details about the guide can be found on the CIPFA shop.
A Good Practice Guide to the Financial Management of Housing Benefit in England (Fully Revised Fourth Edition) (2006)The CIPFA Local Authority Housing Panel has fully revised its housing benefit financial management guide. With the seemingly incessant changes to local authority finance and housing benefit, this new guide will prove an invaluable companion.
Written by independent consultant and former City of Westminster Finance Director Paul Cook, it is aimed at benefits and finance managers and councillors, or indeed anybody needing to understand the finances of this important and high profile service.
The new edition is structured around the 2006 Performance Standards and the 2006 Use of Resources KLOE. The emphasis is on integrated financial management of the housing benefits service. Click here to see what's new in the 2006 edition and to order your copies.
The CJC Guide to the Future of Local Authority Housing Stocks in England - The Options Available (2005)
Whether houses are fit to live in matters even more than who own them. But how can they all be made fit? And how can this be paid for? These issues and more are tackled in the Commissioning Joint Committee's astringent up-to-date plain English guide for decision-makers and practitioners.