The audit fees paid by most local authorities will be cut by almost a quarter for the 2018-19 financial year if proposals put forward by Public Sector Audit Appointments are approved.
A Welsh health board’s procurement and management of HR consultancy contracts fell well short of expected standards, auditors said in the first report of its kind.
Scotland’s local authority spending watchdog has rolled out a new kind of audit, designed to give the public clearer and more systematic assurance about the progress their councils are making...
Public Sector Audit Appointments has filled a gap left by the Audit Commission, allowing councils to opt in to a national scheme for selecting auditors. It’s proving very popular. Could it go...
A large majority of local authorities in England look likely to use Public Sector Audit Appointments to procure their auditors – but any intending to do so must notify them by 9 March, its...
The head of the company formed by the Local Government Association to manage local public sector audit contracts has said it will maintain a rigorous audit regime once the Audit Commission shuts its...
When the Audit Commission was founded in 1983 its earliest staff members were excited by the opportunity to standardise and professionalise public sector audit, in a climate of independent scrutiny....