Support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in England
Published on:This report assesses how well pupils with special educational needs and disabilities are being supported.
Search results for 'Training and skills'
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The higher education market
Published on:Young people are making complex choices about higher education without much effective help and advice, and the institutions concerned are under very little competitive pressure to provide best value.
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Transforming performance of HM Customs and Excise through electronic service delivery
Published on:Also available: Incentivization of e-government (404 kb). HM Customs and Excise’s major programme to use e-technology to improve the efficiency of their business operations and services, although at an early stage, is already showing signs of being able to transform the department’s performance. However, today’s report to Parliament by head of the National Audit Office […]
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New IT Systems for Magistrates’ Courts: the Libra Project
Published on:A national standard IT system for magistrates’ courts has been under development for over ten years but is still not complete, Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported to Parliament today. The cost of the project has increased substantially since a PFI deal was signed in 1998. IT systems in magistrates’ courts […]
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Progress in Implementing EU Exit
Published on:This is our second report on the progress Defra has made in preparing for EU Exit.
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NIRS 2: Contract extension
Published on:The Inland Revenue, when required to make major enhancements to its national insurance computer system (NIRS 2) to accommodate significant legislative changes, decided to award a contract extension to Accenture, its existing supplier. And, according to a report from the National Audit Office, published today, the contract extension: offered better value for money than the […]
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Investigation: The Department for Education’s management of a potential conflict of interest
Published on:This investigation focuses on how the Department for Education identified and managed a potential conflict of interest between the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families and a company called Morning Lane Associates.
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Pressures on children’s social care
Published on:This report covers recent trends in pressures on children’s social care demand and activity and national and local government’s response.
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Purchasing and Managing Software Licences
Published on:The Office of Government Commerce has done well to negotiate software licensing agreements with IT suppliers that has secured savings for the taxpayer, Sir John Bourn, the Head of the National Audit Office, reported today. However, it needs to publicise the benefits of the agreement more widely. Software is vital for delivering services to the […]
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The sale of student loans
Published on:This report considers the value for money of the sale of student loans that entered repayment between 2002 & 2006.
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Early Years: Progress in Developing High Quality Childcare and Early Education Accessible to All
Published on:Nearly 100,000 new childcare places have been created for pre-school children since 1998 and the Government is on course to meet its targets for the provision of free part-time early education for three- and four-year-olds. But Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today that more needs to be done to ensure […]
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The PFI Contract for the redevelopment of West Middlesex University Hospital
Published on:The redevelopment of the West Middlesex hospital should assist the NHS in delivering modern, high quality healthcare in London, Sir John Bourn, Head of the National Audit Office reported to Parliament today. As a result of letting a 35 year PFI contract with a net present value of £125 million to the Bywest consortium, the […]
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The Comptroller and Auditor General’s Report on the Department for Education’s financial statements 2015-16
Published on:The Comptroller and Auditor General has provided an adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of the Department for Education’s group financial statements 2015-16. He has also qualified his regularity opinion because the Department has exceeded two of its expenditure limits authorised by Parliament. The Department has many challenges to overcome if it is to implement successfully its plans to provide Parliament with a better picture of academy trusts’ spending next year.
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Follow-up on alternative higher education providers
Published on:The Department is exerting stronger oversight and sanctioning under-performing providers but there remain issues to resolve, such as more timely identification of underperformance and ineligible payments.
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PPP in practice: National Savings and Investments’ deal with Siemens Business Services, four years on
Published on:The PPP deal between National Savings and Investments (NS&I) and Siemens Business Services has improved customer service and has contributed to savings for the taxpayer, Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today. However, Siemens Business Services and NS&I underestimated the challenge involved. Siemens Business Services has encountered a number of problems […]
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Department of Education and Skills – Connexions Service for all Young People
Published on:Head of the National Audit Office Sir John Bourn today reported on the Connexions Service, concluding that it is a radical change in the delivery of advice and guidance to young people and is on target to meeting its major objective of reducing the proportion of 16- to 18-year olds not in education, employment or […]
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Ofsted’s inspection of schools
Published on:This report examines whether Ofsted’s approach to inspecting schools is providing value for money. We assessed Ofsted’s role, performance and impact.
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Capital funding for schools
Published on:The Department must make the best use of the capital funding it has available by continuing to increase the use of data to inform its funding decisions and by creating places where it can demonstrate that they will have the greatest impact.
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Financial sustainability of schools
Published on:The government’s approach to managing the risks to schools’ financial sustainability cannot be judged to be effective or providing value for money until more progress is made.
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Entitlement to free early education and childcare
Published on:Significant progress has been made in providing 15 hours of free childcare to parents of 3- and 4-year olds, but the Department of Education has not yet achieved full value for money