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ECONOMIC GROWTH
EXCLUSIVE: UKSPF review call resisted
By Dan Peters | 16 September 2022
The National Audit Office (NAO) is resisting pressure from the sector to launch a review of the £...
NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
The case for prevention investment
By Abdool Kara | 30 August 2022
We may talk in terms of prevention, preservation or perhaps resilience, but the evidence is that ...
FINANCE
Risky business
By Heather Jameson | 11 July 2022
Amid growing concern over risky investments, ministers are introducing new powers to intervene in...
WHITEHALL
Auditors praise department for evaluation
By Chris Mahony | 23 June 2022
The National Audit Office (NAO) has praised the Department for Education’s (DfE) approach in eval...
LEGISLATION
EXCLUSIVE: Government 'risks battle' on moving districts' functions without consent
By Ann McGauran | 17 May 2022
Districts will push to change the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to ensure their functions ca...
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...
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- Cornwall silent on exit payments after chief executive and finance boss quit
- Local government reorganisation: A genuine pause creates the conditions for a decision
- Rowlands set to stay on until 2028
- Government told of rising complaints at Dudley after Best Value exit
- Debate on unitary council size intensifies ahead of Government review
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