Clackmannanshire Council has been told to urgently address its financial situation, with auditors warning that its approach to balancing the books is unsustainable in the face of deteriorating...
Auditors have raised “serious concerns” over the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead’s finances, and pointed to an at-risk development scheme that could destabilise the authority.
New backstop dates for local government audits will clear the backlog in the next few years, as part of government efforts to solve the problems plaguing the system of assurance in the sector.
The scale of the financial issues English health services face now and in the coming years is “unprecedented”, the National Audit Office has claimed in a report – with the government claiming the NHS...
CIPFA LASAAC has announced it is changing its approach to the huge backlog of English local authority audits, because the planned ‘backstop’ system for outstanding audits has been disrupted by the...
As startling infringements on the independence of national public auditing authorities reflect a worrying global decline in democratic systems, INTOSAI and the OECD call for more hands on deck.
Taxpayers have been let down by poor customer service at HMRC that has seen average call waiting times jump to 23 minutes, the National Audit Office has said.
Scotland’s devolved benefits are to come under the scrutiny of the national spending watchdog, which warned that growing expenditure on health and social security will intensify financial pressure on...
The government’s mooted fix for the local audit backlog is being consulted on by the system leaders, with hopes of publishing more than 700 outstanding audits this year.
The government’s mooted solution to the local audit crisis needs to work, or the Whole of Government Accounts risks being stuck in poor quality for several years, a group of MPs has warned.
A lack of auditor capacity and complex accounting requirements worsened the local audit crisis and meant the Financial Reporting Council could only inspect four financial statements in 2022-23.
What’s the cost of sending a judge to Rwanda? We may know this week. The PM has Covid-19 questions to answer, a watchdog is under pressure and climate change is still with us.
The local audit backlog could have “serious financial consequences” and avoiding any delays in clearing it should be a priority for the government, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England...
Signing off the mounting backlog of historical local authority audits could take up to five years as capacity issues restrict progress, an expert has told PF .
Concerns over weak financial management and poor procurement have prompted Audit Wales to publish rare public interest reports against two authorities.
Any hope of sustainably clearing the huge backlog in local government audit will fail unless the underlying issue of audit resources is fixed, a committee of MPs has said.
The high-profile failures of councils in Woking and Thurrock demonstrate the importance of a strong and well-understood local audit system, which has arguably been lost, two senior voices in the...
