The industry body for accountants has called for the new local government watchdog to play a key role in looking at the effectiveness of councils.
In a new vision for local audit by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) – designed to ‘prompt discussion’ – the body highlighted ‘weaknesses in monitoring by central Government’ and ‘interventions when it is far too late’.
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