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Managing Dedicated Schools Grant Deficits – what we can learn from Auditors’ Annual Reports
The financial challenge Sustained growth in demand for SEND services has left many councils with high value Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) deficits which in some cases are approaching or even exceeding usable reserves. The government has committed to High Needs Stability grants covering up to 90% of DSG deficits for councils that agree SEND reform plans with the Department for Education.
Lessons you can learn from Auditors' Annual Reports
What can Auditors' Annual Reports teach us? In June 2025, we reviewed 100 Auditors' annual reports (AARs) produced by Grant Thornton for our local government audited bodies across England. This represents about a third of all councils in the country. These reports, covering the audit year 2023/24, offer a wealth of insights on what works, and what doesn’t, when it comes to value for money and governance.
Renewing and reforming local governance
FINANCE Renewing and reforming local governance The case for reforming and renewing local financial governance must be made with long-term resilience and sustainability in mind, explain Guy Clifton and Jonathan Werran. By Guy Clifton, Jonathan Werran | 03 December 2024 SHARE Earlier in the year, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Rates Act, a historically significant dateline in the history of local government finance.
Local government reorganisation: Lessons from new unitaries
Local government reorganisation (LGR) has taken place at various times in recent decades, as different governments and councils seek to transform service delivery while generating savings and efficiencies. LGR remains a policy option for the new Government, to help authorities manage the financial difficulties.
"Phase II Trial of Nelipepimut-S Peptide Vaccine in Women with Ductal C" by Anne E O'Shea, Guy T Clifton et al.
UNLABELLED: NeuVax is a vaccine comprised of the HER2-derived MHC class I peptide E75 (nelipepimut-S, NPS) combined with GM-CSF. We completed a randomized trial of preoperative vaccination with NeuVax versus GM-CSF alone in patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). The primary objective was to evaluate for NPS-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses.
Discovering the Ichthyosaur
August 1, 2024 Exhibit reveals Nevada’s state fossil in a whole new light. BY GUY CLIFTON Nevadans take great pride in things that might seem a bit odd to non-dwellers. For example, we celebrate the anniversary of our statehood—Nevada Day—as an official public holiday, complete with an old-fashioned parade in Carson City. We will brag about the unsinkable battleship USS Nevada, the only vessel to get under way during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Scoring success together!
West Midlands Employers (WME) regularly brings together local authority resourcing colleagues through the region's strategic resourcing board. A common discussion is raising awareness of careers in local government to enable all councils to recruit skilled people across various expertise and job types. This year, WME led on and delivered a visually striking, large-scale regional local government career awareness campaign.
Delivering the mission
As the dust settles on the General Election, thought has turned to the actions of the new Government, with an immediate focus on delivery. A flurry of announcements culminated in the King's Speech on 17 July providing a blueprint for the parliamentary agenda over the coming term. The Prime Minister has stated he will be judged on actions not words. The poetry of campaigning is over, the prose of government must begin.
Lessons from recent auditors' annual reports
Earlier this year we reviewed just under 100 auditors' annual reports (AARs) produced for our local government audit clients for the 2022-23 audit year. AARs are the key annual deliverable relating to our value for money (VfM) audit work, and this sample represents approximately 30% of all councils in England. In total, the AARs we reviewed identified more than 700 areas for improvement and highlighted significant weaknesses in some councils' financial sustainability arrangements.
Counting the beans
Earlier this year we reviewed just under 100 auditors' annual reports (AARs) produced for our local government audit clients for the 2022-23 audit year. AARs are the key annual deliverable relating to our value for money (VfM) audit work, and this sample represents approximately 30% of all councils in England. In total, the AARs we reviewed identified more than 700 areas for improvement and highlighted significant weaknesses in some councils' financial sustainability arrangements.
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Value for money audits: lessons for local authorities
In April 2024 we reviewed 92 auditors' annual reports (AARs) that we produced for our local government audited bodies, which represents approximately 30% of councils in England. AARs are the key annual deliverable relating to our value for money audit work. These AARs covered the audit year 2022/23, and thirty also covered 2021/22 due to joint reporting. They were published between April 2023 and March 2024.
How can further local authority failures be prevented?
Local government serves most residents and other stakeholders well – most of the time. But a decade of austerity and wider downward trends in political governance (including auditor and government-related interventions) have led to failure in the full range of local authority bodies. Such failures are not inevitable and the system of checks and balances which exist (in theory at least) should have caught most of the high-profile recent failures.
Onto his next adventure: Oliver X remembered as a ‘powerhouse of energy and passion’
Oliver X departed for arts unknown on Aug. 13. A trail of tears and heartfelt tributes followed. The tenacious champion of the arts in Reno died at Renown Regional Medical Center, 12 days after suffering a stroke. His partner, Shelly Brown, shared the solemn news on the GoFundMe page set up on his behalf. “He is now soaring through the galaxy onto his next adventure,” she wrote. The response to his passing was widespread and heartfelt.
Carter and Nevada: The president from Plains had a Reno connection
Politically, Nevada was never particularly kind to Jimmy Carter, the nation’s 39th president. In 1976, the former Georgia governor lost the state’s Democratic primary to California’s Jerry Brown, and the general-election vote to incumbent President Gerald Ford—the first time since 1908 that bellwether Nevada was carried by the losing candidate. But if Carter ever held a grudge, it never showed in his associations.
Carson City's 'Holiday With a Hero' program awards inaugural scholarships
Carson High School senior Jennifer Acosta has witnessed firsthand the good that comes from the Holiday With a Hero program. “My first experience with this program was in the second grade,” said the soon-to-be graduate who plans to attend Truckee Meadows Community College. “The firefighter I was given (to assist in Christmas shopping) impacted my young mind with his generosity of paying the remaining balance after going $15 over budget. He changed the way I view life ever since then.
SARS-CoV-2 Infection Risk Among Active Duty Military Members Deployed to a Field Hospital — New York City, April 2020
Guy T. Clifton, MD1; Rituparna Pati, MD2; Florian Krammer, PhD3; Eric D. Laing, PhD4; Christopher C. Broder, PhD4; Damodara R. Mendu, MD5; Mark P. Simons, PhD6,7; Hua-Wei Chen, PhD6,8; Victor A. Sugiharto, PhD6,8; Anthony D Kang, PhD9; Daniel Stadlbauer, PhD3; Kathleen P. Pratt, PhD10; Bradley C. Bandera, MD11; Darron K. Fritz, DSc12; Eugene V. Millar, PhD7,8; Timothy H. Burgess, MD7; Kevin K. Chung, MD10 (View author affiliations) View suggested citation What is already known about this topic?
Stewart Cultural Center and Museum closed to public
The Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum was closed to the public on Friday and will remain so for the foreseeable future in response to the coronavirus crisis. “The Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum will be closed to visitors, tours, and presentations,” said Stacey Montooth, executive director of the Nevada Indian Commission, which runs the Stewart facility.
Douglas student among 6 competing to be Nevada Poetry Out Loud champion
What started in September with a field of more than 4,400 Nevada High School students has been narrowed to the final six who will compete Saturday for the title of Nevada Poetry Out Loud Champion. The 15th annual competition, free and open to the public, will be held at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts in Reno. The competition starts at noon. For the first time in its history, the event will be live-streamed on You Tube at this address: https://youtu.be/YBjHNsIXa6A.
Carson City Mint ‘error coins’ topic of Thursday lecture
Coins from the Carson City Mint are rare enough in any condition to be coveted by collectors, but error coins – those with flaws generally caused during the minting process – multiply both the rarity and the collectability. In a lifetime spent coin collecting in Northern Nevada, Allen Rowe has seen a variety of error coins and owns a few himself.
Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City adds sixth day of operations
The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City has expanded its days of operation. “We are delighted to open six days a week,” said museum Director Dan Thielen. “The State of Nevada has been returning services as the economy improves and we have added two part-time positions that allow us to open Wednesday through Monday year ’round. We have been trying to get back to these hours for quite a few years and in the last legislative session, we were successful.” Starting Feb.
Women’s suffrage in Nevada detailed in Carson City lecture
Efforts to secure voting rights for Nevada women began as early as 1869 – just five years after statehood – but it wouldn’t be until 1914 that male voters passed the state’s women’s suffrage amendment. These actions coincided with national women’s suffrage efforts and issues and they are the subject of this month’s Frances Humphrey Lecture Series at the Nevada State Museum. Joanne L.
Carson City Mint celebrates 150th anniversary Tuesday
Guy Clifton / gclifton@travelnevada.com The U.S. Mint in Carson City is shown around 1875. Provided It is one thing to study history; it is another witness it. Visitors to the Nevada State Museum in Carson City on Tuesday will find themselves in history’s front row as the museum celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Carson City Mint. Just as it did 150 years earlier to the day, the Mint’s Coin Press No. 1 will be pressing silver coins, complete with the famous “CC” mint mark.
Carson City Mint celebrates 150th anniversary Tuesday
It is one thing to study history; it is another witness it. Visitors to the Nevada State Museum in Carson City on Tuesday will find themselves in history’s front row as the museum celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Carson City Mint. Just as it did 150 years earlier to the day, the Mint’s Coin Press No. 1 will be pressing silver coins, complete with the famous “CC” mint mark. U.S. Mint Director David Ryder will join Gov. Steve Sisolak, U.S. Rep.
Medallion celebrates 150 years of Carson City Mint
One-hundred-fifty years to the day after it pressed the first Liberty Seated silver dollars at the Carson City Mint, the very same coin press will be minting medallions in the same building in commemoration of the historic event. It’s all part of Mint150 — the Nevada State Museum’s celebration of the sesquicentennial of the Carson City Mint. Festivities will start just before 10 a.m. Feb. 4 at the Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St. Admission is free. It was on Feb.
Nevada Historical Society showcases longtime photography curator Lee Brumbaugh
The Nevada Historical Society is honoring its late longtime photo curator, Lee Brumbaugh, in the best way it can – with a retrospective of his work. Brumbaugh was the curator of photography at the Nevada Historical Society from 1996 to 2018. He died in 2019. The exhibition will be in place through February. “A Retrospective: Nevada Behind the Lens,” will showcase select framed images from four of Brumbaugh’s completed exhibitions; highlighting Nevada’s beauty, natural and altered.
Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum opens Monday
by Guy Clifton Travel Nevada Stewart Indian School students enjoyed great success in sports – including football, basketball and boxing – throughout the years and are highlighted at the new Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum. Photo by Guy Clifton/TravelNevada stewartmuseum For the first time, the general public can get a glimpse of life at Stewart Indian School, 130 years after the government boarding school opened in Carson City and 40 years after it was closed.
Mint celebration tips a hat to the Curry family of Carson City
The Nevada State Museum is offering a step back into Carson City’s history on Saturday, complete with a presentation from the city’s founding family. It was in January of 1870 when the doors of the Carson City Mint were opened to the public by its first superintendent – and Carson City’s founder – Abe Curry. Abe is back, so to speak, on Saturday, along with his daughter, Elvira Curry Cowen.
Carson man wins Nevada Arts Council grant
Guy Clifton Nevada Arts Council The Nevada Arts Council announced the awarding of $22,639.60 in statewide grants to support individual artists in the production and presentation of artistic projects that will occur between Jan. 1 and June 30. The Project Grant for Artists is awarded twice a year for projects that take place during a specified six-month period.
‘Pajama Train’ for kids with health concerns this weekend in Carson City
The holiday season generally doesn’t lack in opportunities for children to have fun, with numerous special events and activities open to all. For children who are battling cancer or those with compromised immune systems, those opportunities aren’t nearly as great. The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City wanted to make sure no child or their family is left out of its annual Santa Train program and for the fourth consecutive year offers Santa’s Pajama Express Saturday and Sunday, Dec.
Santa Trains steam up Saturday at railroad museum in Carson City
The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City launches its 35th year of Santa Train this weekend and tickets are available online and at the museum’s depot. The Santa Trains will be running every 30 minutes the weekends of Dec. 7, Dec. 14 and Dec. 21 between 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Children and their families ride in rail cars pulled behind the historic Virginia & Truckee Railroad #25 steam locomotive. On their way around the museum’s track, Santa Claus hands out candy canes to all the riders.
Fall book signing set at Nevada State Museum in Carson City
With fall in the air and winter nipping at her heels, curling up with a good book is a great way to spend a few hours – or days – and learn about Nevada in the process. The Nevada State Museum’s annual Autumn Book Signing has everything you’ll need. The event is Nov. 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. inside the museum’s Dema Guinn Concourse. This year’s lineup of writers and their books includes: Jackie Boor – Logan: The honorable life and scandalous death of a western lawman Valerie P.
Day of the Dead celebration at Nevada State Museum in Carson City
One of Northern Nevada’s most popular cultural events – annual Day of the Dead Community Celebration – returns Friday and Saturday to the Nevada State Museum with a plethora of family friendly activities. “Our Day of the Dead celebration is one of the most exciting and popular events held at the museum,” said Museum Director Myron Freedman.
‘Day of the Dead’ at Nevada State Museum
One of Northern Nevada’s most popular cultural events – annual Day of the Dead Community Celebration – returns Friday and Saturday to the Nevada State Museum with several family friendly activities. “Our Day of the Dead celebration is one of the most exciting and popular events held at the museum,” said Museum Director Myron Freedman.
Harvest Train weekend coming to Carson City railroad museum
Local | October 11, 2019 by Guy Clifton Travel Nevada Pumpkins are scattered on the grass at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in advance of the annual Harvest Train Weekend, Oct. 19-20. Adam Michalski/Nevada State Railroad Museum The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City is packing a whole lot of family fun into its annual Harvest Train festivities this year. The event is the weekend of Oct.
Harvest Train weekend coming to Carson City railroad museum
Carson City | October 11, 2019 Guy Clifton | Travel Nevada Pumpkins are scattered on the grass at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in advance of the annual Harvest Train Weekend, Oct. 19-20. Adam Michalski/Nevada State Railroad Museum The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City is packing a whole lot of family fun into its annual Harvest Train festivities this year. The event is the weekend of Oct.
Nevada Poetry Out Loud competition opens registration
Registration is under way for the Nevada’s 2020 Poetry Out Loud competition and high school teachers and students throughout the state are invited to get involved. It has been four years since Douglas High School’s Dominique Groffman won best in state at Poetry Out Loud. Groffman went to the national competition in 2015. Douglas High student Lea Gifford placed third in the state in 2017.
Nevada Poetry Out Loud competition opens registration
Registration is under way for the Nevada’s 2020 Poetry Out Loud competition and high school teachers and students throughout the state are invited to get involved. Registration is open to all high school-aged Nevada public, private, charter, parochial and alternative schools and home school associations. Structured similarly to the National Spelling Bee, Poetry Out Loud is focused on literary heritage through memorization and performance of classic and contemporary works.
Nevada State Museum in Carson City joins in Smithsonian’s ‘Museum Day’ on Saturday
The Nevada State Museum, Carson City will open its doors for free to all Museum Day ticketholders on Saturday as part of Smithsonian magazine’s 15th annual Museum Day. Museum Day is a national celebration of boundless curiosity in which participating museums emulate the free admission policy at the Smithsonian Institution’s Washington, D.C.-based museums.
Nevada State Museum in Carson City joins in Smithsonian’s ‘Museum Day’ on Saturday
The Nevada State Museum, Carson City will open its doors for free to all Museum Day ticketholders on Saturday as part of Smithsonian magazine’s 15th annual Museum Day. Museum Day is a national celebration of boundless curiosity in which participating museums emulate the free admission policy at the Smithsonian Institution’s Washington, D.C.-based museums.
Antique military vehicle convoy passes through Lake Tahoe
A convoy of vintage military vehicles will pass through Douglas County on their way to San Francisco on Thursday. In observance of the 100th anniversary of the first U.S. Army Transcontinental Convoy from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco, the will stop lunch at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City on Thursday before continuing up Highway 50. The public is welcome to view the vehicles and visit with the convoy participants.
Nevada Arts Council announces 2019 Basin to Range Exchange projects
The Nevada Arts Council’s Basin to Range Exchange (BRX) is unveiling its first list of projects designed to bring collaboration between urban and rural arts organizations. Each of the 14 projects received Nevada Arts Council grants for $1,200 — $16,800 total — to help move the projects forward. “The inaugural BRX program is off to a fantastic start,” said Tony Manfredi, executive director of the Nevada Arts Council.
Aviation history topic of Nevada State Museum lecture in Carson City
From barnstorming pilots of the post-World War I era — Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart among them — to World War II Army Air Corps training to the present-day Reno National Championship Air Races, aviation has been a mainstay in Nevada.
Nevada State Museum to debut replica Carson City Mint half dollar
Coins with the famous “CC” mark of the Carson City Mint are coveted by coin collectors and those minted in 1870 – the first year of operation for the Mint – rank highly among them in terms of historic and monetary value. Thursday, the very coin press that minted the original will be recreating replicas of the 1870 Liberty Seated Half Dollar in the same building that produced the originals almost 150 years ago.
Nevada State Museum to debut replica Carson City half dollar
Coins with the famous “CC” mark of the Carson City Mint are coveted by coin collectors and those minted in 1870 – the first year of operation for the Mint – rank highly among them in terms of historic and monetary value. On Thursday, the very coin press that minted the original will be recreating replicas of the 1870 Liberty Seated Half Dollar in the same building that produced the originals almost 150 years ago.
Sinatra versus Nevada gaming regulators
The story of Frank Sinatra and his Nevada gaming license has all the makings of a Hollywood classic, with fame, fortune, the Mob, shady characters and straight shooters all in the mix. It is also the subject of this month’s American Gaming Archives Fireside Chat at the Nevada Historical Society in Reno. The event is 5-6:30 p.m. today, starting with a wine-and-cheese reception at 6 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults; free for Nevada Historical Society members and children 17 and younger.
State museum hosts moon landing week
Fifty years after Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took “one giant leap for mankind,” the image of putting a man on the moon remains a source of pride wrapped in awe for most Americans. The young and young of heart still dream of becoming astronauts and most people 50-plus can tell you where they were and what they were doing that July day in 1969.
Railroad Museum’s trains ready for Fourth
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Chinese immigrants helped build Sierra mining camps
by Guy Clifton Travel Nevada J. Holman Buck's photo of hauling wood on burros in 1908 Bodie. Nevada Historical Society. Chinese immigrants were abundant in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevada in the latter half of the 19th century. In the 1860s, the first Chinese immigrants found their way to Aurora and by the 1870s, they had settled along King Street in Bodie, creating a sizeable Chinatown.
Stewart Father’s Day Powwow honors tradition
by Guy Clifton Travel Nevada A dancer competes in the 2018 Stewart Father’s Day Powwow on the grounds of the former Stewart Indian School. Nevada Indian Commission photo fathersdaypowwow Hundreds of American Indian dancers, drummers, artists, craftsmen and cultural enthusiasts will converge on Carson City June 14-16 for the annual Stewart Indian School Father’s Day Powwow.
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