Tag: Finance

In June, Audit Wales published a report into how Bridgend Council commissions services (pdf). Commissioning is when a council designs ...

A BBC Shared Data Unit has revealed the debts of each local authority in the UK, as well as the ...

The issue of school transport in Bridgend garnered more media attention recently, this time focused on Maesteg. Bridgend Council maintains ...

Bridgend Council has agreed to vary the conditions of a £2.5million loan to bring a brownfield site in Maesteg into ...

Bridgend Council's Cabinet will discuss the draft budget for 2023-24 later this week, including a list of proposed cuts and ...

Bridgend Council's Cabinet has turned down a request by a council scrutiny committee to provide costings for the council's flagship ...

Bridgend Council's Cabinet formally adopted a new council-wide carbon reduction strategy back in December 2022. The strategy (pdf) sets out ...

This year's "Shaping Bridgend's Future" budget consultation is open until January 22nd 2023 – all of the information is available ...

Bridgend Council has accepted that lessons need to be learned from how they managed a Welsh Government cost-of-living payment scheme ...

Bridgend Council will be undertaking a review of its partnership arrangements with other local authorities as part of preparations for ...

At this month's council meeting, councillors discussed the annual report on the management of the council's finances (pdf). One item ...

Edit: Due to the death of Elizabeth II, the Cabinet meeting that was due to discuss this has been cancelled ...

Yesterday, Audit Wales published their long-awaited report into fraud and financial mismanagement at Maesteg Town Council (pdf). The council's former ...

The only backbench questions to the Cabinet at this month's full council meeting were about Bridgend Council's response to the ...

This final local elections post is arguably the most important of all – a summary of what the main parties ...

Bridgend Council intends to freeze council tax during 2022-23. It follows a much better than expected increase in funding through ...

As you may have already heard, the Welsh Government has agreed in principle to a funding package worth just under ...

Councils across Wales are set to receive budget increases of between 8-12% for 2022-23 under the Welsh Government's draft local ...

As you'll no doubt remember, in October Audit Wales published two public interest reports into the finances of Ynysawdre Community ...

*The photo above wasn't taken in Bridgend before someone says otherwise. A report discussed by a council scrutiny committee yesterday ...

Bridgend Council has agreed funding for free Wi-Fi in Bridgend, Porthcawl, Pencoed and Maesteg town centres as part of a ...

(Title Image: © Copyright Jaggery and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence BY-SA-2.0) At the moment it seems like ...

(Pic: © Copyright Jaggery and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence BY-SA-2.0) As you may be aware, Porthcawl Town ...

(Title Image: © Copyright Jaggery and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence BY-SA-2.0) As has been reported elsewhere, another ...

(Title Image: Suzanne Jeynes - picture taken in June 2020) While it's not the most glamorous of local authority responsibilities, ...