Audit and Risk Assurance Committee effectiveness tool
Our tool is primarily based on guidance from central government, most notably HM Treasury’s Audit and Risk Assurance Committee Handbook.
13 May 2022
Our tool is primarily based on guidance from central government, most notably HM Treasury’s Audit and Risk Assurance Committee Handbook.
In March 2021, the C&AG submitted evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee inquiry into the Department of Health & Social Care’s White Paper, ‘Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care’. This drew on the National Audit Office’s past body of work to highlight the main risks and opportunities the White Paper presents, both in terms of effective implementation of the proposed reforms and in terms of making progress towards overarching health and social care policy aims.
This guide will help ARACs recognise how climate change risks could manifest themselves and support them in challenging senior management on their approach to managing climate change risks.
Our cloud guidance for audit committees builds on our 2019 guidance. We have seen more of the public sector turn to cloud services and government spending with the major cloud providers has increased in the last five years. We have updated our guidance to reflect this and to recognise wider developments and evolution of cloud services.
This guide helps audit and risk committee members to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on their organisations.
This interactive round-up of NAO publications is intended to help Audit Committees, Boards and other users by outlining the latest NAO resources for governance and oversight, risk management and strategic management issues. It also sets out how to keep in touch with NAO insight on specific issues and/or sectors.
Outlining cloud services and their use in government, this guide suggests questions to ask at planning, implementation and management stages.
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.