About Us
One of the many significant challenges for local government today is how to ensure that financial management supports both strategic decision-making and effective performance management.
It must ensure that there is capacity to enable financial management to shape and support transformational programmes.
To achieve this, local government is recognising the importance of:
- ensuring financial literacy is diffused throughout the organisation;
- equipping the organisation with financial management competencies; and
- ensuring managers' accountability for managing their budgets and ensuring this is matched by suitable skills and competencies in financial management.
CIPFA's Finance Advisory Network (FAN), building upon IPF's success and experience in delivering training support, has re-designed it’s financial management related training and development services.
Our aim is quite simple:
‘To strengthen and transform the success of financial management arrangements across
local government through the provision of relevant, high quality training to finance practitioners,
service managers, their staff and to Members.’
To help us achieve this objective, we have repackaged the way in which we are able to support your financial management training and development needs. We have developed a:
- defined series of core programmes around which to base our future on-site support to service managers, their staff and Members in a local authority;
- new training and development forum, which will complement our on-site training through providing ongoing support to learning and development for managers and Members alike; and
- programmes to support the professional training requirements of your finance staff.
We have created a team of expert training consultants with a broad range of experiences. These enable our team to support the developmental needs of the authorities we serve.
