Guidance for audit committees on cloud services
Published on:This guide outlines cloud services and their use in government, and suggests questions to ask at assessment, implementation and management stages.
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Quality assurance of models: a guide for audit committees
Published on:This good practice guide will help audit committees understand and question the quality assurance framework for business-critical models.
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Round-up for Audit Committees
Published on: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.
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Cyber and information security: Good practice guide
Published on: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.
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Transformation guidance for audit committees
Published on: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.
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Local government and net zero in England
Published on:This new report responds to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee to examine local government and net zero.
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Audit Committee self-assessment checklist
Published on:The Audit Committee checklist is based on the Treasury’s Audit Committee Handbook and on feedback from staff and Audit Committees. Audit Committees can assess their performance against best practice using the checklist.
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Government’s approach to the environment and climate change 2023-24
Published on:This is an overview of the Government’s approach and commitments for environmental improvement, mitigating climate change, and adapting to climate change.
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Digital transformation in government: a guide for senior leaders and audit and risk committees
Published on:The guide can support audit and risk committees and senior leaders tasked with overseeing large-scale digital change to understand the core issues.
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Audit and Risk Assurance Committee effectiveness tool
Published on:Our tool is primarily based on guidance from central government, most notably HM Treasury’s Audit and Risk Assurance Committee Handbook.
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Implementing statutory biodiversity net gain
Published on:There are risks to the long-term effectiveness of a new policy to make sure developers protect or improve biodiversity
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Ministry of Justice: Environmental sustainability overview 2017
Published on:The Environmental Audit Committee requested a review of sustainability within the Ministry of Justice.
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Freedom of Information Publication Scheme:Policies and procedures for delivering our work
The NAO’s policies and procedures for delivery its work are available to the public on request. This includes technical guidance and the Audit Manual.
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Taking on the challenge of public sector cyber security
Published on:The government recently published its new Cyber Security Strategy specifically aimed at building a cyber resilient public sector. Resilience is key in underpinning its vision to make the UK a cyber power in a world increasingly shaped by technologies that offer many benefits but also pose risks. The strategy reiterates that government remains an attractive […]
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Climate change risk: A good practice guide for Audit and Risk Assurance Committees
Published on: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.
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Use of Agile in large-scale digital change programmes
Published on:This guide helps Audit and Risk Committees ask the right questions when undertaking major digital change programmes using Agile.
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Departmental sustainability overview: Department for Transport
Published on:This briefing responds to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee to review sustainability within the Department for Transport.
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Sustainability in the spending review
Published on:This briefing responds to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee that we review how the 2015 spending review took account of environmental issues.
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Guide for Audit and Risk Committees on Financial Reporting and Management during COVID-19
Published on:This guide helps audit and risk committee members to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on their organisations.
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Cyber security: has the pandemic changed anything?
Published on:We outline how the pandemic has moved many aspects of our lives online, helping us stay connected but making us more vulnerable to cyber-attacks.