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  1. Childhood obesity

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    This report examines the effectiveness of the government’s approach to reducing childhood obesity in England.

  2. Regulating Housing Associations’ Management of Financial Risk

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    The housing association sector and the Housing Corporation, the sector’s regulator, are facing new and more complex financial risks, according to the National Audit Office. The Housing Corporation has started to reform the way in which it regulates associations, known as Registered Social Landlords (RSLs), but there is scope to improve regulation further. According to […]

  3. Using modern methods of construction to build homes more quickly and efficiently

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    The National Audit Office today released a report showing the potential for modern methods of construction to provide good quality homes quickly and efficiently. The NAO also provides guidance on identifying and managing the risks associated with modern methods of construction. This work responds to a request from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister […]

  4. Housing Corporation: Overseeing Focus Housing Association

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    In April 2000, three men were sentenced to prison terms for corruption in relation to the purchase of homes, between 1991 and 1995, by Focus Housing Association from a Birmingham property dealer. Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today that the Corporation’s routine reviews of Focus during that period did […]

  5. The Operation and wind up of Teesside Development Corporation

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, has published his report on the operation and wind up of Teesside Development Corporation. The Comptroller and Auditor General’s report is in response to concerns raised with him by three Members of Parliament for the North East of England and a former contractor of the Corporation. […]

  6. Local authority governance

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    Our report examines whether local governance arrangements provide assurance that local authority spending achieves value and authorities are financially sustainable

  7. Fire Service College Accounts 1996-97 and 1997-98

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, today reported to Parliament that he has qualified his opinions on the above accounts because the Fire Service College could not produce reliable costing information that would confirm whether it had set its fees and charges in accordance with the Treasury Minute which defined the College’s financial objectives.

  9. NAO Briefing for the Communities and Local Government Committee

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    This briefing has been prepared for the Communities and Local Government Select Committee to provide an overview of the Department for Communities and Local Government’s financial management in 2009-10 and its structural reform priorities.

  12. Local auditor reporting in England 2018

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    The number of NHS and local government bodies with weaknesses in their arrangements for delivering value for money is increasing.

  14. Managing Reductions in the Number of Vacant Family Quarters

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported to Parliament today that 23 per cent (over 14,000 houses) of the family quarters estate held in Great Britain by the Ministry of Defence (the Department) was vacant, costing some £39 milliona year in rent and maintenance. The Executive disposed of nearly 2,000 houses in […]

  19. National Asylum Support Service: The Provision of Accommodation for Asylum Seekers

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today that contracts agreed by the Home Office in 2000-01 to provide accommodation for asylum seekers have not always proved value for money. The Home Office’s National Asylum Support Service provides accommodation for asylum seekers who are destitute, or likely to become destitute, while their […]

  20. The health and social care interface

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    This ‘think piece’ draws on our past work highlighting the barriers that prevent health and social care services working together effectively, examples of joint working and the move towards services centred on the needs of the individual, to inform the ongoing debate about the future of health and social care in England.