These guides are intended for use by NAO auditors and clients, who may find them useful in the course of preparing their financial statements.
The guide can support audit and risk committees and senior leaders tasked with overseeing large-scale digital change to understand the core issues.
Our report examined how projects achieve value to see what lessons there are for other projects. By value, we mean the difference projects make to citizens, service users or the environment.
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.
We set out seven high level lessons with recommendations on what the government can do now so that it will better prevent fraud and maintain standards during an emergency.
In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, said smarter government can provide people with better public services despite the challenging fiscal backdrop.
A guide for senior leaders and risk practitioners across government with ways to help overcome the challenges to managing risks.
Our report provides updates on the government’s evolving approach to national resilience and risk management.
Our guide sets out the elements to consider & questions to support good practice and value for money, through real examples from our reports.
Read the highlights and watch the recording from our recent event, Effective regulation in a climate of innovation.
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 report examines whether government has mechanisms in place to understand and encourage competition in public procurement, and how government departments can make their use of competition more effective.
This report draws on insights from our previous work to set out what effective cross-government working looks like and highlights some of the barriers.
This guide aims to support policy and delivery professionals responsible for delivering programmes involving more than one department in delivery.
Senior Audit Manager Natalie Low gives an NAO perspective on the NHS as it turns 75. What has many decades of the NAO auditing one of the largest employers in the world revealed?
This report brings together our learning and identifies eight areas for government departments and national regulators to consider when designing, delivering and improving regulation involving local regulatory delivery.
This good practice guide will help audit committees understand and question the quality assurance framework for business-critical models.