The guide can support audit and risk committees and senior leaders tasked with overseeing large-scale digital change to understand the core issues.
Our guide is for people who deal with whistleblowers, investigate concerns or manage whistleblowing processes in government organisations.
This interactive guide sets out good practice principles for annual reporting with examples from public sector organisations.
A guide for senior leaders and risk practitioners across government with ways to help overcome the challenges to managing risks.
Our guide sets out the elements to consider & questions to support good practice and value for money, through real examples from our reports.
Our good practice guide outlines how to plan strategically and realistically to align strategy and planning, address optimism bias, and deal with risk and uncertainty.
This good practice guide for policy and delivery professionals helps you work with uncertainty in government programmes
Covering leadership, skills and data, our guide covers the essential enablers to unlock the potential of your finance team.
This guide aims to support policy and delivery professionals responsible for delivering programmes involving more than one department in delivery.
This good practice guide will help audit committees understand and question the quality assurance framework for business-critical models.
These good practice guides share practical tips on improving the quality and efficiency of day-to-day services provided by government.
The Delivery Environment Complexity Analytic (DECA) is a tool developed by the National Audit Office (NAO) to provide a high level overview of the challenges, complexity and risks to delivery of a project, programme, policy or area of work.
This guide helps Audit and Risk Committees ask the right questions when undertaking major digital change programmes using Agile.
This guide addresses the complex topic of corporate finance in the public sector and includes key questions to ask when scrutinising corporate finance activities.
This guide is aimed at accounting officers, chief executives, director
generals, directors and chief operating officers and people responsible for government services.
Our tool is primarily based on guidance from central government, most notably HM Treasury’s Audit and Risk Assurance Committee Handbook.
We have prepared this guide to help accounting officers, other senior leaders and policymakers understand how the NAO assesses the robustness of the evaluation arrangements in departments.
This framework provides a structured, flexible approach to reviewing models. It is intended to aid those commissioning or undertaking analysis of a model with the aim of determining whether the model is robust and reasonable.
This framework has a set of questions to assess whether a portfolio is achieving value for money
Audit committees should be scrutinising cyber security arrangements. To aid them, this guidance complements government advice by setting out high-level questions and issues for audit committees to consider.