Monitoring and responding to companies in distress: lessons learned
Published on:Our report provides updates on the government’s evolving approach to national resilience and risk management.
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Monitoring and responding to companies in distress: good practice
Published on:Our guide sets out the elements to consider & questions to support good practice and value for money, through real examples from our reports.
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Innovation in regulation: key takeaways from our webinar
Published on:Read the highlights and watch the recording from our recent event, Effective regulation in a climate of innovation.
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Financial management in government: strategic planning and budgeting
Published on:Our good practice guide outlines how to plan strategically and realistically to align strategy and planning, address optimism bias, and deal with risk and uncertainty.
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Managing uncertainty: Questions for decision-makers to ask in an uncertain environment
Published on:This good practice guide for policy and delivery professionals helps you work with uncertainty in government programmes
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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.
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Competition in public procurement: lessons learned
Published on:This report examines whether government has mechanisms in place to understand and encourage competition in public procurement, and how government departments can make their use of competition more effective.
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Cross-government working: lessons learned
Published on:This report draws on insights from our previous work to set out what effective cross-government working looks like and highlights some of the barriers.
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Cross-government working: good practice
Published on:This guide aims to support policy and delivery professionals responsible for delivering programmes involving more than one department in delivery.
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The NHS at 75: what have decades of NAO audits told us?
Published on:Senior Audit Manager Natalie Low gives an NAO perspective on the NHS as it turns 75. What has many decades of the NAO auditing one of the largest employers in the world revealed?
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How to deliver regulation locally
Published on:This report brings together our learning and identifies eight areas for government departments and national regulators to consider when designing, delivering and improving regulation involving local regulatory delivery.
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Quality assurance of models: a guide for audit committees
Published on:This good practice guide will help audit committees understand and question the quality assurance framework for business-critical models.
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Police recruitment target hit, now to secure the benefits
Published on:We’ve used our Police Uplift Programme report to give context on the Home Office reaching its target of 20,000 new police officers.
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Resetting major programmes
Published on:This report uses our experience of auditing programmes to draw together insights to help decision-makers determine whether they should reset a programme and how to increase the chances of a reset succeeding.
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Disclosure guide for entities who prepare financial statements in accordance with the Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM)
Published on:These guides are intended for use by NAO auditors and clients, who may find them useful in the course of preparing their financial statements.
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Fit for purpose? Modernising government’s outdated digital services
Published on:This opinion piece looks at the issues raised by the NAO’s recent report on how Defra is gradually modernising it’s digital services.
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How to improve operational services
Published on:These good practice guides share practical tips on improving the quality and efficiency of day-to-day services provided by government.
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Good practice in annual reporting
Published on:This interactive guide sets out good practice principles for annual reporting with examples from public sector organisations.
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Efficiency savings require learning past lessons
Published on:Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, outlines lessons from NAO reports into the government’s handling of COVID-19 in a keynote speech at the Houses of Parliament.
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Agile or fragile? The challenges of Agile at scale
Published on:This opinion piece looks at the challenges faced when using Agile for major digital change programmes.