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  1. Confirmed impacts: Drawing together information and insights across the adult care system

    Report

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    This impacts case study shows how our review of the whole adult care system and the increasing pressures on its financial and service sustainability aided the debate about meeting future care needs and highlighted the need for more research to identify the most effective ways of working.

    It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.

  2. Supporting disabled people to work

    Report Value for money

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    This report is about the Department for Work & Pensions’ support to help disabled people overcome barriers to work.

  4. Government has increased its climate change ambition, now it must step up to the challenge

    Insight Opinion

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    Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions will be a colossal challenge for the UK and one that will require all parts of government to work together. The NAO has audited numerous cross-government projects and programmes in the past, ranging from the 2012 Olympics to preparations for EU Exit. This experience has given us a deep […]

  5. Programmes to help families facing multiple challenges

    Report Value for money

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    Two government programmes aiming to help families with multiple challenges, such as unemployment and anti-social behaviour, are starting to provide benefits but considerable challenges remain.

  6. Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund Account

    Report Financial audit

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    The NAO welcomes the progress being made by the Northern Ireland Social Security Agency in reducing levels of fraud and error in benefit payments.

  9. Reducing losses in the benefits system caused by customers’ mistakes

    Report Value for money

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    DWP does not yet have enough evidence to demonstrate that its activities to reduce the cost of mistakes by customers have been value for money. Although mistakes are difficult to detect, correct and prevent, the scale of overpayments and underpayments demonstrates a clear need for improvement.

  11. BBC Studios (2020)

    Report Value for money

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    This report examines the rationale, implementation and success of BBC Studios.

  12. E20: renewing the EastEnders set

    Report Value for money

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    This report examines whether the BBC has managed E20 in a way that is likely to achieve value for money.

  14. Transformation guidance for audit committees

    Insight Good practice guides

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    Transformation programmes can be highly complicated and risky. This guidance assists those overseeing them by setting out questions committees should ask during set-up, delivery and live-running phases.

  18. Early progress in transforming courts and tribunals

    Report Value for money

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    In this report we outline what HM Courts and Tribunals Service’s (HMCTS) change portfolio to modernise and upgrade the justice system will deliver, consider early progress against plans and explore how HMCTS and its partners have managed the change portfolio and the risks it faces in the future.

  20. Support to incapacity benefits claimants through Pathways to Work

    Report Value for money

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    A Department for Work and Pensions programme to reduce the number of people claiming incapacity benefits and help them into work has had a limited impact and, while a serious attempt to tackle an intractable issue, has turned out to provide poor value for money.