24 June 2025
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- Fringe
- Public sector reform
- How to regain public trust
- Sustainability
- Technology and people
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President’s welcome and Chair’s opening remarks
President’s welcome from Sir Mark Lowcock, Incoming CIPFA President and opening remarks from day one chair, Sameena Ali-Khan
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Successful devolved approaches – the opportunities and challenges for metro mayors
The challenges we face are global in nature, and yet our key issues of poverty, public health and social care and security hit closer to home. Can devolution and pragmatic problem solving enable more successful city and region-based outcomes, spearheaded by strong Mayors putting local needs first?
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Morning break
What are the opportunities/barriers for closer collaboration between local government and frontline services in light of the UK devolution white paper?
One year in from a new UK government, frontline services are not only dealing with reductions in budgets (in real terms) and rising demand, but long overdue funding reforms and potentially generational reforms to organisations and institutional structures through devolution. How can we work more closely across regional and local structures to deliver positive outcomes to communities?
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Workshop 4
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Prevention – a shift for all public services
As demand and financial pressures squeeze our public services, prevention is increasingly framed as a strategic priority. Yet, there remains confusion around exactly what this means. From a public finance perspective, prevention involves investing earlier to provide support before potential issues arise or problems escalate, aiming to improve long-term outcomes and support people to live well in their communities. Thus, reducing the likelihood, or severity, of demand for more reactive services. This panel session will explore the challenges of striking the right balance of preventative and reactive services, and how this is crucial to the resilience of public services.
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Workshop 2
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Workshop 1
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Lunch break
Transformation, Resilience, and Reorganisation in Action – An Australian Case Study in Modernising Local Services
An insightful session featuring Metropolitan Memorial Parks, a new Australian organisation made up of three separate legacy trusts which integrated together under one roof. Learn how they successfully navigated the complexities of merger, policy alignment, and technology modernisation.
Having undergone significant structural change, they bring valuable real-world experience in aligning financial systems, procedures, and people all under pressure and tight deadlines. We explore:
- Where they found resilience during uncertainty
- The strategies that helped them stay on course
- What they would approach differently in hindsight
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Global perspectives and evolving pressures for performance audit
Shifting political priorities continue to challenge accountability frameworks, with both direct and indirect implications for PFM systems. This panel session will consider UK and International perspectives on the evolving pressures specific to performance audit, as interest grows in assessing not just financial information, but also the broader effectiveness and impact of government programmes through non-financial information.
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Workshop 7
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Public Sector Sustainability Reporting – Next Steps?
As governments around the world develop policies and regulations to advance their climate change agenda, sustainability reporting within the public sector is gaining prominence. With new public sector sustainability standards from IPSAB coming out later this year there is a growing urgency to understand the risks and challenges of implementing these standards within the existing reporting frameworks. Listen to our experts as they discuss what next within the sphere of public sector sustainability reporting.
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Afternoon break
Workshop 12
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LG reorganisation – are you prepared?
Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) is a key priority for the Government in ensuring resilience, stability and ultimately sustainability in Local Government. The need for a standardised approach to support the sector to deliver it and provide assurance over the process is clear.
CIPFA and experienced professionals will talk about how an assurance framework will help the sector building on what has been learnt through the last few years.
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Supporting Standards in public life
This session will explore practical strategies to improve standards in public life across the sector. We will hear from practitioners, ethics champions and lawyers how to recover from a crisis, approach better governance and ethical decision making, while engaging the whole organisation.
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Workshop 9
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Balancing technology and human capacity in a changing world for public finance
The global workforce challenge that we face now and in the future will not be solved by technology and/or human capacity and capability alone. Tech can be used to replace roles, to enhance productivity, to make roles more attractive, and to innovate and create new roles – all of the above, but it also depends what we ask of it. How do we tackle the great service questions and balance human insight and experience vs the ‘answer flavoured products’ that AI queries may give us? And ensure quality, accountability and the future of the profession are baked into the answers for these generational questions.
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Drinks reception
Key
- Fringe
- Public sector reform
- How to regain public trust
- Sustainability
- Technology and people
