National-audit-office - Page 5

By Rob Whiteman | 07 March 2023

As the NAO report concludes, delays in local audit accounts pose a risk to the Whole of Governmen...

NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE

Looking at alternatives to competitive funding pots

By Abdool Kara | 07 March 2023

Could the resources invested in failed bids, added to the immense resources needed to assess them...

WHITEHALL

Treasury tightens grip over DLUHC spending

By Dan Peters | 08 February 2023

New capital projects by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) will now...

FINANCE

FRC to develop local audit workforce strategy

By Dan Peters | 25 January 2023

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is to develop a local audit workforce strategy this year as...

FINANCE

The trillion dollar question

By Michael Burton | 25 January 2023

Our public services seem to be broken but we are spending a trillion pounds a year – so where is ...

PAY

Time for a social care system refresh

By Paul Marinko | 18 January 2023

Social care is beset by a perfect storm of problems. What needs to change, and are there any chin...

SOLACE

So many failures looks like carelessness, as Oscar Wilde almost said

By Abdool Kara | 10 January 2023

Some combination of senior councillors and officers is at fault when it comes to council failures...

PEOPLE

EXCLUSIVE: Former audit head lined up for new watchdog

By Heather Jameson | 08 December 2022

A former head of the National Audit Office (NAO) is to chair the new local government watchdog.

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Getting place-based partnerships right

By Ann McGauran | 24 October 2022

New Integrated Care Systems must understand their local landscapes and focus on prevention if the...

HEALTH

Taking back control of our water

By Dominic Harrison | 28 September 2022

Dominic Harrison says that using public health powers there may be some steps councils can take n...

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