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  1. The Comptroller and Auditor General’s Report on the Department for Education’s financial statements 2015-16

    Report Financial audit

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    The Comptroller and Auditor General has provided an adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of the Department for Education’s group financial statements 2015-16. He has also qualified his regularity opinion because the Department has exceeded two of its expenditure limits authorised by Parliament. The Department has many challenges to overcome if it is to implement successfully its plans to provide Parliament with a better picture of academy trusts’ spending next year.

  2. The sale of student loans

    Report Value for money

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    This report considers the value for money of the sale of student loans that entered repayment between 2002 & 2006.

  4. Follow-up on alternative higher education providers

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    The Department is exerting stronger oversight and sanctioning under-performing providers but there remain issues to resolve, such as more timely identification of underperformance and ineligible payments.

  5. Pressures on children’s social care

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    This report covers recent trends in pressures on children’s social care demand and activity and national and local government’s response.

  6. Ofsted’s inspection of schools

    Report Value for money

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    This report examines whether Ofsted’s approach to inspecting schools is providing value for money. We assessed Ofsted’s role, performance and impact.

  7. Training New Teachers

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    The government needs to do more to demonstrate how new arrangements for training new teachers are improving the quality of teaching in classrooms.

  9. Financial sustainability of schools

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    The government’s approach to managing the risks to schools’ financial sustainability cannot be judged to be effective or providing value for money until more progress is made.

  10. Capital funding for schools

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    The Department must make the best use of the capital funding it has available by continuing to increase the use of data to inform its funding decisions and by creating places where it can demonstrate that they will have the greatest impact.

  11. Entitlement to free early education and childcare

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    Significant progress has been made in providing 15 hours of free childcare to parents of 3- and 4-year olds, but the Department of Education has not yet achieved full value for money

  13. Confirmed impacts: Driving a customer service focus at the Education Funding Agency

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    This impacts case study shows how our work led to the Education Funding Agency’s launch of a single change programme to improve its customer service, use of data and business processes, and the skills of its people.

    It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.

  15. Investigation: the government’s funding of Kids Company

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    Kids Company, a children’s charity, received at least £46m of public funding. Officials raised concerns about the charity’s cash flow and financial sustainability at least 6 times between 2002 and 2015 but the charity never reached a position where it was able to operate without government assistance.

  16. Confirmed impacts: Delivering better careers advice for young people

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    This impacts case study shows how our reporting of shortfalls in careers advice, echoed by the education sector, prompted the Department for Education to announce a new company to drive improvements.

    It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.

  18. BIS’s capital investment in science projects

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    The Department for Business, Skills and Innovation has not used good quality information to decide which science capital projects to invest in to optimise scientific and economic benefits.

  19. Children in need of help or protection

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    The Department for Education recognised since 2010 that child protection services are not good enough but its subsequent response has not yet resulted in better outcomes. Spending on children’s social work, including on child protection, varies widely across England and is not related to quality. Neither the DfE nor authorities understand why spending varies.