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  1. Achieving net zero

    Press release

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    This report applies experience from auditing cross-government challenges to highlight the risks government needs to manage to achieve net zero.

  2. Oversight of special education for young people aged 16-25

    Report Value for money

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    Course outcomes for young people aged 16-25 receiving special educational support are improving. However, a lack of understanding of the relationship between needs, costs and outcomes can lead to students not getting the right support, and risks compromising value for money.

  4. Successful commissioning toolkit
    SMART outcomes

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. You must express your outcomes in ‘Smart’ terms. ‘Smart’ is an acronym that you may be more familiar with in terms of setting targets. We use it here to remind you to make your outcomes: Specific.  The way you express your outcome must target the issue you are concerned […]

  7. Asylum accommodation and support

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    This report examines the government’s replacement of the COMPASS contracts for accommodation and support for asylum seekers.

  8. Improving school attendance in England

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    A report by the National Audit Office today has highlighted the major challenge faced by the Department for Education and Skills in reducing pupil absence from schools. The Department, together with local authorities and schools, has made some progress in reducing total absence. At the same time, there has been no decline in unauthorised absence, […]

  9. Delivering the free entitlement to education for three- and four-year-olds

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    The Department for Education has made progress against many of its objectives in delivering the free entitlement to early education, but it must address variations in take-up, quality of provision and the impact on attainment in later years if it is to achieve value for money.

  10. Water supply and demand management

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    This report sets out the challenges facing the water industry in England and assesses how Defra is tackling them.

  12. Retaining and developing the teaching workforce

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    Schools, especially secondary schools, face real challenges in retaining and developing their teachers. National data suggest progress but mask significant local variation.

  14. 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

  15. 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.

  17. Implementing transparency

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    Better access to public information can improve accountability and service delivery. Government needs a firm grasp of whether that potential is being realised.

  18. Academy Schools Sector in England Consolidated Accounts 2015-16

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    This is the first year in which the Department for Education (the Department) has produced Academy Sector Accounts which consolidate the results of the 3,013 academy trusts that were open during the year ended 31 August 2016.

  19. 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.

  20. Making a Difference: Performance of Maintained Secondary Schools in England

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    When measuring the performance of maintained schools in improving the academic achievements of their pupils, the Department for Education and Skills should take account of newly available data on the academic achievements of the pupils in earlier stages of their education and on aspects of their economic, social and cultural backgrounds. This recommendation appears in […]