Whistleblowing arrangements in government require further improvement with slow and inconsistent progress being made by departments and other civil service bodies, a new National Audit Office (NAO) report says.
Government is underprepared for extreme weather events which can cause significant disruption to people, businesses, and their communities.
Our report provides updates on the government’s evolving approach to national resilience and risk management.
Our guide sets out the elements to consider & questions to support good practice and value for money, through real examples from our reports.
Our report looks at whether the government is well positioned to achieve its drug strategy’s 10-year ambitions.
Read the highlights and watch the recording from our recent event, Effective regulation in a climate of innovation.
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.
This good practice guide for policy and delivery professionals helps you work with uncertainty in government programmes
Covering leadership, skills and data, our guide covers the essential enablers to unlock the potential of your finance team.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the NAO has reported on the 2020-21 Whole of Government Accounts.
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.
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.
This guide aims to support policy and delivery professionals responsible for delivering programmes involving more than one department in delivery.
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.
The Financial and Risk Management insights team are producing a series of guides aimed at senior finance decision-makers across all of our audited bodies. Our guides will showcase strategic-level insights outlining areas where good financial management can unlock greater efficiency and resilience, as well as practical ways organisations can make improvements.
This good practice guide will help audit committees understand and question the quality assurance framework for business-critical models.
Most public bodies do not know how much fraud they face and cannot demonstrate that they have the correct level of counter fraud resources, according to the National Audit Office.
Most public bodies do not know how much fraud they face and cannot demonstrate that they have the correct level of counter fraud resources.
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.
This report assesses how government is trying to address the underlying issues that make digital transformation so difficult to achieve.