Training New Teachers
The government needs to do more to demonstrate how new arrangements for training new teachers are improving the quality of teaching in classrooms.
10 Feb 2016
The government needs to do more to demonstrate how new arrangements for training new teachers are improving the quality of teaching in classrooms.
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.
This report describes progress following the second phase of HMCTS’s reform programme, which ended in January 2019.
We published two reports today – Following the discovery of widespread and deep-rooted weaknesses in the government’s management of contracts it is starting to improve how it manages its contracts.
“The Ministry of Defence has made significant reductions in the cost of repairing and maintaining its jets, whilst broadly maintaining aircraft availability. On this basis, the changes represent value for money and underline the benefit of the MoD’s approach to partnering with industry and rationalising repair activity.
“However, risks remain and it is important for the MOD to continue to manage these so as not to compromise the good work it has done in this area.”
The Department of Health has until recently been focusing on speed of response as a measure of performance of the ambulance service, rather than on clinical outcomes. The service achieves high levels of public satisfaction but there are wide variations in ambulance trusts’ efficiency. The system has not delivered the best value for money to date.
“Customs and Excise have made good progress in getting their electronic service delivery programme underway. The programme is, however, at the early stage of its development and there is a long way to go to translate the strategy and plans into performance improvements on the ground. An IT programme of this magnitude inevitably presents some large risks and our report recommends to Customs how to address these risks.”
Probation services have been restructured on time and within cost targets during a period of major change but operational problems and risks to further service transformation need to be resolved if re-offending levels are to reduce.
This report builds on our previous work and takes stock of the Ministry of Justice’s Transforming Rehabilitation reforms
The NAO’s memorandum, for the International Development Committee, provides an overview of trends in UK spending on aid.