Financial sustainability of colleges in England
Published on:This report focuses on the financial sustainability of further education and sixth-form colleges.
This report focuses on the financial sustainability of further education and sixth-form colleges.
The first phase of the Care Act has been implemented well, but this places new responsibilities on local authorities whose core funding is being significantly reduced.
The Department for Communities and Local Government has taken steps since November 2014 to improve its understanding of new burdens on local authorities.
This report applies experience from auditing cross-government challenges to highlight the risks government needs to manage to achieve net zero.
The CQC, the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England, has made substantial progress but needs to recruit and train staff and build a new organisational culture.
In the context of more than 1 billion people lacking access to safe drinking water and 2.4 billion people lacking basic sanitation facilities, the Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) projects to improve access to water and sanitation in developing countries have been largely successful, the National Audit Office reports today. Between 1997 and 2002 DFID […]
We focus on specific concerns about the financial support provided to students attending some alternative HE colleges and other providers.
We welcome the Treasury’s continuing commitment to improving the timeliness and content of the WGA.This will enable the Treasury to manage public finances better.
This report provides our initial thoughts on the learning government can draw from its response to COVID-19 to date.
There are some good examples across government of alternatives to regulation being used to achieve policy objectives. However more needs to done to share these examples to highlight when alternatives are most likely to work and how they should be designed.
Our Annual Report sets out the NAO’s performance over 2017-18 and reflects on our achievements.
This report examines Department for International Trade (DIT) and UK Export Finance (UKEF) progress and performance in supporting UK exports.
This report examines the MoD’s progress implementing digital transformation.
The Ministry of Defence’s strategy for improving its financial management has put its finances on a sounder footing and is delivering results, but there are still considerable challenges ahead, including delivering the savings already removed from budget allocations.
This report evaluates whether Defra’s management of new tree-planting schemes is likely to achieve value for money.
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.
This report examines whether government’s arrangements for decommissioning AGR nuclear power stations will lead to better value for money.
Monitor has achieved value for money in regulating NHS foundation trusts, and has generally been effective in helping trusts in difficulty to improve.
This report examines the government’s management of the reduction in Official Development Assistance spending.
This investigation examines DHSC’s performance in managing PPE contracts. It is a factual account of what has happened since November 2020.