Financial management in government: Enablers of success
Published on:Covering leadership, skills and data, our guide covers the essential enablers to unlock the potential of your finance team.
Covering leadership, skills and data, our guide covers the essential enablers to unlock the potential of your finance team.
This guide is aimed at accounting officers, chief executives, director
generals, directors and chief operating officers and people responsible for government services.
The first in a series of blogs looking at the Commercial Lifecycle covers data.
The Government has made progress delivering its latest strategy to share back-office services across Whitehall departments in the past year, but remaining barriers will need to be addressed for it to deliver its plans by 2028 and achieve value for money, according to the National Audit Office.
The shielding programme was a swift government wide response to identify and protect clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) people against COVID-19. Our recent report on Protecting and supporting the clinically extremely vulnerable during lockdown, shows how government quickly recognised the need to provide food, medicines and basic care to those CEV people shielding. This had to […]
If the government wants to modernise, it must start with its data – but addressing the government’s data issues isn’t easy.
Our Digital Insights team are experts on digital transformation and technology programmes, with experience in both the public and private sectors.
This report draws together our experience of the main challenges and barriers to better use of data across government.
Our interactive tool brings together data from across the UK government on its costs in response to the pandemic.
Have you ever had the frustration of having to provide the same information about yourself to different government services? Have you ever had to make decisions without information about what does and doesn’t work? Data is fundamental to delivering public services, improving systems and processes, and supporting sound decisions – but accessing accurate data is […]
This report examines if government is achieving its ambition for the public sector to be a leader in decarbonising its activities.
This report examines the progress made in improving the timeliness of auditor reporting on English local public bodies’ financial statements. Delays in completing audited accounts can have significant implications for local accountability and the effective management of public money.
Government is taking longer than it should to appoint non-executive directors (NEDs) to public positions, and these delays can leave gaps on boards, creating risks to governance, and reducing the number of high-quality candidates.
This study examines how the Cabinet Office maintains, oversees and manages central government property.
Gareth Davies uses the NAO’s insights to outline what government needs to do to make public money work harder
This report assesses how government is trying to address the underlying issues that make digital transformation so difficult to achieve.
This map tool map lets you explore where auditors have issued non-standard reports locally in the NHS and local government in England.
In our ever-increasing digital and automatized world, certain buzzwords are becoming more centre stage in the public sector. One of them is “artificial intelligence”. While the concept, and development, of artificial intelligence is not new (artificial intelligence was first recognised as a formal discipline in the mid-1950s), it is a word that has been casually […]
This report examines the current care market and the Department of Health & Social Care’s role in overseeing it.
Use of process mining to help understand the Home Office’s operation of the Windrush Compensation Scheme