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FINANCE

NAO floats auditing overhaul

By Dan Peters | 13 March 2019

The way auditors examine council accounts could be overhauled, the National Audit Office (NAO) ha...

WHITEHALL

Government brushes off Kara criticism

By Dan Peters | 04 March 2019

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has brushed off criticism from ...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Councils call for streamlined new burdens for Brexit

By Dan Peters | 26 February 2019

Councils have urged the Government to introduce a more streamlined approach to providing new burd...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: Sector fumes over lack of pre-Brexit briefing

By Dan Peters | 21 February 2019

Councils have threatened to walk away from Government attempts to engage with them on Brexit amid...

WHITEHALL

NAO to probe council commercialisation

By Dan Peters | 20 February 2019

Local authority commercialisation will further come under the spotlight, with the National Audit ...

NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE

Public audit will soon need a spring clean

By David Walker | 19 February 2019

John Tizard and David Walker make the case for a new way of auditing how public money is spent th...

FINANCE

NAO should oversee council spending - report

By Martin Ford | 12 February 2019

The remit of the National Audit Office (NAO) should be extended to cover local government, a new ...

FINANCE

NHS sustainability 'very difficult' without a long-term social care settlement

By Abdool Kara | 06 February 2019

A series of significant National Audit Office reports on local services have emerged so far this ...

FINANCE

Labour calls for NAO to intervene in fair funding review

By Dan Peters | 04 February 2019

Labour has called for the National Audit Office (NAO) to vet the outcome of the local government ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Keeping up standards

By Michael Burton | 30 January 2019

As councils become increasingly commercial, auditors are asking how high standards of governance ...

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Assistant Director Strategy & Community Regeneration

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Ashfield District Council