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Grant Thornton supported Stoke-on-Trent City Council through its schools PFI expiry, providing financial and commercial advisory expertise.

LGR puts asset management at risk of afterthought status. See the key risks, from balance sheet splits to LATCos, and how to get ahead of them.

UKREiiF 2026 insights: bridging the gap between capital and delivery, exploring infrastructure investment, partnerships and strategies to unlock UK development.

Local Authorities enter 2026 still facing sustained financial strain. Despite uplifts in core spending power across the sector as a whole, pressures from social care demand, contract inflation and higher borrowing costs continue to erode resilience across the sector. Recent parliamentary evidence confirms that, whilst rare, the number of Section 114 notices issued since 2018 is at an all-time high, underlining the systemic nature of the challenge and the scrutiny on historic corporate investments and subsidiary performance.

Key takeaways from our conversation on the current and future status of private finance initiatives delivery.

With the Government committing over £800 billion to hundreds more infrastructure projects, Rhiannon Williams looks at what private finance initiatives have taught us about delivering infrastructure projects – and what could be done better next time around.

As PFI expiry nears a peak planning for key challenges will make the process much smoother for contracting authorities.

How private sector funding can help the public sector deliver key projects and programmes