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  1. Financial sustainability of local authorities 2014

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    Local authorities have worked hard to manage reductions in government funding, but the DCLG needs to be better informed about the situation across England.

  4. Successful commissioning toolkit
    Grant or procurement?

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. The rules on when you can use grant and when you can use procurement mean there are many situations when a public body could use either. You need to decide which one is more suitable for your programme, service or intended outcome and is likely to provide the […]

  5. Successful commissioning toolkit
    When can I use grant?

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. Grant is an extremely useful way for a public body to fund a third sector organisation (TSO) for activity that is in line with one or more of the public body’s objectives. For example, a council that is concerned about the poor wellbeing of one of the communities […]

  7. Decision support tool
    Build in full cost recovery

    This page is part of our decision support tool. Full cost recovery [Footnote 1] The government recognises that: No activity can be undertaken without its provider incurring central administrative costs A funder or commissioner has an interest in meeting its fair share of a provider’s central administrative costs because that will help to ensure that […]

  8. Network Rail’s sale of railway arches

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    This report examines the value for money of Network Rail’s sale of a major part of its commercial real estate portfolio.

  9. Local government funding: Assurance to Parliament

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    The Department has increased local authorities’ flexibility over their funding, but as a result has less information on how funds are being spent.

  10. National College for Teaching and Leadership Accounts

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    Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his audit opinions on the National College for Teaching and Leadership’s (NCTL) 2016-17 Accounts due to a limitation in the scope of his audit of the regularity of the NCTL’s grant expenditure.

    11 January 2018

  12. Decision support tool
    What is this decision support tool (DST) for?

    This page is part of our decision support tool. What is it for? Financial relationships between TSOs and government bodies are not as good as they should be. The government’s financial principles in this area are sound. But the gap between these principles and the practical task of designing and operating a funding model that […]

  13. Successful commissioning toolkit
    Full Cost Recovery (FCR)

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. The government and the Compact recognises that: No activity can be undertaken without its provider incurring central administrative costs; [Note 1] Funders and commissioners have an interest in meeting their fair share of a provider’s central administrative costs because that will help to ensure that the provider […]

  14. Decision support tool
    Annex A: Note on legal forms of TSOs and charitable status

    This page is part of our decision support tool. What is meant by the term ‘third sector organisation’ (TSO)? Organisations are traditionally divided on the basis of‘private’ or ‘public’, and ‘for-profit’ or ‘not-for-profit’.Organisations which are established on a not-for-profit basis, and which are not directly controlled by the state (not part of the public sector) […]

  15. The higher education market

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    Young people are making complex choices about higher education without much effective help and advice, and the institutions concerned are under very little competitive pressure to provide best value.

  16. Decision support tool
    Annex D: Note on channels

    This page is part of our decision support tool. Principles Government bodies’ use of the three channels (procurement, grant, grant-in-aid) available for funding the activities of TSOs has been highly inconsistent in relation to TSOs. There are a number of reasons for this: Many actual cases do not fit neatly into any one of the […]

  17. The Regional Growth Fund

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    The £1.4 billion funding could result in 41,000 extra full-time equivalent private sector jobs but thousands more could have been created from the same resources.

  18. National Citizen Service

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    Having shown that the concept of a national citizen service has something to offer young people, to demonstrate value for money the OCS and the Trust now need to show they can grow NCS as intended and run it at a more affordable cost to the taxpayer.

  19. Community Fund: Review of grants made to the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns

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    The Community Fund adhered to its policies and procedures in awarding a grant to the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns, Sir John Bourn, Head of the National Audit Office, reported to Parliament today. However, these policies and procedures were not sufficiently robust and did not alert it to risks it was undertaking in awarding a […]

  20. 2005-06 Community Fund Financial Statements – follow up report on actions taken by the Fund…

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported to Parliament today that he had given an unqualified opinion on the 2005-06 Community Fund’s accounts. Last year, Sir John had qualified his opinion on the 2004-05 accounts on the grounds that the Fund’s systems did not include adequate checks to identify potential fraudulent applications. […]