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27 Jul 15
A banking scandal on an epic scale, flagrant misuse of public funds, fearless investigators and a grasping Scottish cabal in Westminster. Familiar? It happened 200 years ago.
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20 Jul 15
Government auditors are highlighting a likely rapid rise in the numbers of further education colleges that are in poor financial health.
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17 Jul 15
Auditor general Amyas Morse has qualified his opinion on the 2014/15 resource accounts of Revenue and Customs due to error and fraud in the payment of tax credits.
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17 Jul 15
The number of young people leaving care who are not in education, employment or training has increased in every year since 2007/08, with the current proportion costing the state £240m, auditors...
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16 Jul 15
The Department for Work and Pensions 2014/15 accounts have been qualified once again because of “unacceptably” high levels of fraud and error in benefit expenditure, the National Audit Office said.
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2 Jul 15
An IT project designed to extract data from GP practice computers came in three times over budget and almost four years late, a National Audit Office investigation has found.
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2 Jul 15
Open-book accounting data is currently only available in a third of government contracts, a National Audit Office survey has revealed.
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19 Jun 15
Neither the Treasury nor the Cabinet Office currently monitor how well payment-by-results schemes work, despite £15bn being spent through the contracts, the National Audit Office has said.
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11 Jun 15
Government reforms to the care system have exposed local authorities to increased financial risk due to uncertainty over the level of demand for services, auditors have concluded.
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11 Jun 15
Auditors have revealed that the government has not undertaken any reviews of the impact of new burdens on local authorities since 2009, despite a pledge by ministers to conduct at least six a year.
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4 Jun 15
Auditors have criticised the Home Office for not monitoring closely enough the impact of cuts on the financial sustainability of police forces and have urged it to become better informed about which...
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29 May 15
The National Audit Office has called on the Department for Work and Pensions to learn the lessons from recent reforms to the welfare system in order to improve how it manages change and anticipates...
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28 May 15
Auditors have concluded that North Dorset District Council acted unlawfully by increasing parking charges in 2012/13 in an attempt to raise revenue to fund general services.
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27 May 15
Westminster City Council has set a new record for approval of local authority accounts after they were signed-off on May 18 – one day quicker than traditional frontrunners Oldham.
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21 May 15
The merger of Scotland’s eight fire and rescue authorities into a central national service was conducted well and the service is effectively managed, but a major funding gap looms, according to...
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20 May 15
Oldham Council has beat its own speed record for closing its accounts after approval was given to its 2014/15 report by the authority’s audit committee yesterday.
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19 May 15
Audit firm 360 Assurance has won CIPFA’s Award for Innovation and Excellence in Public Service Audit in recognition of its work supporting NHS clinical commissioning groups.
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29 Apr 15
The auditor general for Wales is to take on a statutory duty to audit sustainable development, becoming one of just a handful of auditors general worldwide to do so.
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14 Apr 15
CIPFA is to work with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland to develop a joint qualification covering both public and corporate sector audit.
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8 Apr 15
The Scottish government’s newly devolved fiscal powers expose it to a whole ‘new world’ of risk and responsibility, Scotland’s auditor general has warned ministers.
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31 Mar 15
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...
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24 Mar 15
The National Audit Office has published the Code of Audit Practice for local public bodies, which includes a duty for auditors to consider how best to gain assurance over pooled spending initiatives.
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17 Mar 15
Auditors have called on the Scottish Government to set out proposals to improve its financial reporting to take account of the new fiscal powers being devolved to Holyrood.
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15 Mar 15
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....
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2 Mar 15
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27 Jul 15A banking scandal on an epic scale, flagrant misuse of public funds, fearless investigators and a grasping Scottish cabal in Westminster. Familiar? It happened 200 years ago.
20 Jul 15Government auditors are highlighting a likely rapid rise in the numbers of further education colleges that are in poor financial health.
17 Jul 15Auditor general Amyas Morse has qualified his opinion on the 2014/15 resource accounts of Revenue and Customs due to error and fraud in the payment of tax credits.
17 Jul 15The number of young people leaving care who are not in education, employment or training has increased in every year since 2007/08, with the current proportion costing the state £240m, auditors...
16 Jul 15The Department for Work and Pensions 2014/15 accounts have been qualified once again because of “unacceptably” high levels of fraud and error in benefit expenditure, the National Audit Office said.
2 Jul 15An IT project designed to extract data from GP practice computers came in three times over budget and almost four years late, a National Audit Office investigation has found.
2 Jul 15Open-book accounting data is currently only available in a third of government contracts, a National Audit Office survey has revealed.
19 Jun 15Neither the Treasury nor the Cabinet Office currently monitor how well payment-by-results schemes work, despite £15bn being spent through the contracts, the National Audit Office has said.
11 Jun 15Government reforms to the care system have exposed local authorities to increased financial risk due to uncertainty over the level of demand for services, auditors have concluded.
11 Jun 15Auditors have revealed that the government has not undertaken any reviews of the impact of new burdens on local authorities since 2009, despite a pledge by ministers to conduct at least six a year.
4 Jun 15Auditors have criticised the Home Office for not monitoring closely enough the impact of cuts on the financial sustainability of police forces and have urged it to become better informed about which...
28 May 15Auditors have concluded that North Dorset District Council acted unlawfully by increasing parking charges in 2012/13 in an attempt to raise revenue to fund general services.
27 May 15Westminster City Council has set a new record for approval of local authority accounts after they were signed-off on May 18 – one day quicker than traditional frontrunners Oldham.
21 May 15The merger of Scotland’s eight fire and rescue authorities into a central national service was conducted well and the service is effectively managed, but a major funding gap looms, according to...
20 May 15Oldham Council has beat its own speed record for closing its accounts after approval was given to its 2014/15 report by the authority’s audit committee yesterday.
29 Apr 15The auditor general for Wales is to take on a statutory duty to audit sustainable development, becoming one of just a handful of auditors general worldwide to do so.
14 Apr 15CIPFA is to work with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland to develop a joint qualification covering both public and corporate sector audit.
8 Apr 15The Scottish government’s newly devolved fiscal powers expose it to a whole ‘new world’ of risk and responsibility, Scotland’s auditor general has warned ministers.
24 Mar 15The National Audit Office has published the Code of Audit Practice for local public bodies, which includes a duty for auditors to consider how best to gain assurance over pooled spending initiatives.
17 Mar 15Auditors have called on the Scottish Government to set out proposals to improve its financial reporting to take account of the new fiscal powers being devolved to Holyrood.
15 Mar 15When 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....
2 Mar 15Protecting the public purse
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