National-audit-office - Page 6

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...

WHITEHALL

Whitehall must be more 'ambitious' when it comes to affordable homes

By Heather Jameson | 20 September 2022

The Government’s programme for delivering affordable housing could be more ‘ambitious’ when it co...

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