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.
We’ve used our Police Uplift Programme report to give context on the Home Office reaching its target of 20,000 new police officers.
This report uses our experience of auditing programmes to draw together insights to help decision-makers determine whether they should reset a programme and how to increase the chances of a reset succeeding.
This opinion piece looks at the issues raised by the NAO’s recent report on how Defra is gradually modernising it’s digital services.
These good practice guides share practical tips on improving the quality and efficiency of day-to-day services provided by government.
Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, outlines lessons from NAO reports into the government’s handling of COVID-19 in a keynote speech at the Houses of Parliament.
This opinion piece looks at the challenges faced when using Agile for major digital change programmes.
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.
We brought together experts on regulation and Britain’s relationship with Europe to discuss the issues facing regulators following the UK’s exit from the EU.
This guide helps Audit and Risk Committees ask the right questions when undertaking major digital change programmes using Agile.
This blog highlights our upcoming good practice guide that’s a ‘how to’ guide for people managing a service. It also includes a separate summary on managing demand.
This guide addresses the complex topic of corporate finance in the public sector and includes key questions to ask when scrutinising corporate finance activities.