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  1. Principles Paper: Managing provider failure

    Insight Good practice guides

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    This paper explores the principles departments should use to manage provider failure. There is room for improvement in the way failure of providers is considered and managed.

  2. Fraud and Error Stocktake

    Insight Good practice guides

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    The government continues to lose large amounts of money through fraud and error overpayments and many vulnerable people get less support than they are entitled to.

  4. Lessons for major service transformation

    Insight Lessons learned

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    This briefing note draws on lessons developed in our report Welfare reform – lessons learned and sets out broader principles from our work auditing government programmes and reporting on value for money.

  5. Welfare reform

    Insight Lessons learned

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    It is important that the DWP use the hard lessons it learned from implementing its recent programme of welfare reforms to improve how it manages change and anticipates risk.

  7. Modelling of maternity services in England

    Insight Audit methodology

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    This paper sets out how we used a modelling technique called ‘discrete event simulation’ to investigate a local maternity service.

  8. Mapping between different commissioners of healthcare

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    This paper sets out how we created look-up files to map between different commissioning geographies. This enabled us, for example, to estimate overall health funding at an area-level despite the different geographical bases of the various commissioners. We provide links to these look-up files.

  9. Conflicts of interest

    Insight Good practice guides

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    This report outlines the importance of recognising and adequately managing conflicts of interest.

  10. Delivering value and accountability – CIMA and NAO expert panel report

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    Fiscal pressure on government departments is set to continue through the next Parliament, with citizen expectations continuing to rise. With the ‘more for less’ challenge continuing indefinitely and an increasingly complex public sector landscape, a strong and integrated finance function across government is crucial.

  13. Government whistleblowing policies

    Insight Good practice guides

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    This report provides the context around whistleblowing and examines the procedures in place for whistleblowing within government departments.

  15. Evaluation in Government

    Insight Good practice guides

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    Treasury expects all departments to evaluate the ex post impacts and costs of all their interventions, including spending, taxation and regulation. This activity should provide valuable information on the cost-effectiveness of government interventions, for the purposes of accountability and to learn lessons to improve current and future policies.

  16. Over-optimism in government projects

    Insight Lessons learned

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    Optimism bias in public sector projects is not a new phenomenon. But it is one that persists, frequently undermining projects’ value for money as time and cost are under estimated and benefits over estimated. This report uses our back catalogue to illustrate the consequences of over optimism. In doing so, we have identified some contributory factors – such as project complexity and an organisation’s culture of challenge.

  19. Fact sheet: Governance Statements – good practice observations from our audits

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    Our “Fact Sheet: Governance Statements: good practice observations from our audits”, highlights the key messages and good practice we identified from our work. Organisations can use our good practice observations to help support better governance and more transparent reporting in their Governance Statements.