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ECONOMIC GROWTH
Centre has 'poor understanding' of what works on local growth, says NAO expert
By Ann McGauran | 16 May 2022
A large proportion of Government spending is ‘not robustly evaluated’ and there is poor understan...
INFRASTRUCTURE
The NAO will be paying close attention to the progress of levelling up
By Abdool Kara | 11 May 2022
Abdool Kara says it is straightforward to direct Government capital and infrastructure cash towar...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Children's services: leaving crisis management behind
By Martin Ford | 20 April 2022
With the National Audit Office’s investigation into the state of children’s services due later th...
WHITEHALL
New accountability body 'stops short' of Audit Commission reinvention
By Heather Jameson | 08 February 2022
Plans for a body to oversee the accountability of local government stop just short of re-inventin...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Auditors in levelling up warning
By Mark Conrad | 31 January 2022
The Government’s levelling up plans could be undermined by Whitehall failure to monitor what work...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: NAO to consider early intervention report
By Dan Peters | 24 January 2022
The National Audit Office (NAO) is to consider a report on early intervention and prevention afte...
NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
A late-notice, short-term and partial settlement poses problems
By Abdool Kara | 18 January 2022
There may be a clue about why the sector only has a one-year settlement in the lack of announceme...
NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
Tackling our next big governance challenge
By Ed Hammond | 11 January 2022
As the changes that need to be made to local services become more profound, we must involve a wid...
NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
Local audit's perfect storm
By Naomi Larsson | 08 December 2021
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has suggested the volume of late audits means Whitehal...
NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
ALATS can aim to cultivate an environment supportive of finance chiefs
By Tony Kirkham | 17 November 2021
Tony Kirkham has taken up the reins as the new president of the Association of Local Authority Tr...
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