NAO updates framework to review programmes icaew.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from icaew.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Comptroller & Auditor General has issued a report to Parliament stating that the National Citizen Service drew down unnecessary funds in 2019-20 in breach of HM Treasury’s Managing Public Money guidance.
The National Citizen Service Trust (NCS)’s 2019-20 annual report and accounts published last month contains a report addressed to the Houses of Parliament from Gareth Davies, the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG) and head of the National Audit Office (NAO), concerning NCS’ management of public funds during the year ended 31 March 2020.
NCS was established in 2009 as a community interest company and granted a Royal Charter in 2018 as an arm’s length body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) following the National Citizen Service Act 2017. It works with a variety of delivery partners to provide subsidised summer programmes for 16 and 17-year olds with the aim of bringing together young people from different backgrounds to work on pr
NAO calls for long-term strategy for adult social care icaew.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from icaew.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A recent legal battle over the transparency of Thurrock Council’s £815m debt-leveraged investments in solar power bonds highlights the importance of understanding and managing balance sheet risk in the public sector.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has won an appeal against a ruling by the Information Commissioner that Thurrock Council does not have to disclose details about its investments in solar power projects. Thurrock has until 12 April to provide the information requested, although it may not have to answer all of the questions asked if it can provide alternative grounds for non-disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
Thurrock Council spent £393m on local services in 2019-20, according to its latest report and accounts published in November 2020, with interest receivable and similar income of £50m (significantly greater than £21m in interest payable and similar charges and a £3m loss on £373m of investments carried at fair value thro
Audit Wales reports that the Welsh Government’s Test, Trace, Protect programme has developed well and effectively learnt lessons from earlier peaks of COVID-19.
Audit Wales recently published an overview of progress on the Welsh Government’s Test, Trace, Protect (TTP) programme. The report covers delivery of the programme up to the end of 2020, a point when COVID-19 cases were surging again, with more recent data up to the end of February 2021. The second part of the report focuses on the challenges ahead as the programme and the pandemic continue.
Healthcare is a devolved public service, so the Welsh Government runs a separate programme to NHS Test and Trace (NHST&T) in England, although there are some UK-wide arrangements such as the Lighthouse Laboratories that process tests.