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  1. Managing children’s residential care

    Report Value for money

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    This report assesses DfE’s response to challenges faced by local authorities in placing looked-after children in residential care in England.

  2. Unlocking land for housing 

    Work in progress

    Winter 2025/26

    Our report will examine whether unlocking land is effectively supporting government’s ambitions to build the right homes in the right places.

  3. An analysis of the asylum system

    Work in progress

    Winter 2025/26

    This system analysis is intended to support ongoing Parliamentary scrutiny and further audit work on this complex area of public spending.

  5. Tackling violence against women and girls 

    Report Value for money

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    This report examines efforts to address gender based violence, to support government’s target to halve violence against women and girls.

  6. Progress in preventing cardiovascular disease

    Report Value for money

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    A review of how NHS Health Checks are provided in England is needed to improve the system for preventing cardiovascular disease.

  7. Code of Audit Practice 2024 

    Press release

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    The National Audit Office (NAO) has published the new draft Code of Audit Practice (the Code) 2024.

  10. Investigation into asylum accommodation

    Report Value for money

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    Government’s plans for asylum accommodation will cost more than using hotels, and large sites are housing fewer people than planned.

  12. Reforming adult social care in England

    Press release

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    Government has delayed plans to cap lifetime social care costs and scaled back plans for reforming the system it set out in December 2021.

  14. Reducing the harm from illegal drugs

    Press release

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    The government’s 2021 drugs strategy has provided fresh impetus to the efforts to tackle harm to society from illegal drugs, but it will need to address uncertainties about future funding, gaps in the evidence base and a lack of focus on prevention, if it is to achieve its objectives, according to a National Audit Office report.

  15. Reducing the harm from illegal drugs

    Report Value for money

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    Our report looks at whether the government is well positioned to achieve its drug strategy’s 10-year ambitions.

  18. COVID-19 business grant schemes

    Press release

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    This report looks at BEIS’s oversight of the schemes, its understanding of what the schemes achieved, and how well it worked with local authorities.

  19. Efficiency savings require learning past lessons

    Insight Opinion

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    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.