Search results for 'Financial sustainability'

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  1. Homelessness

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    Homelessness has increased across all measures since 2010, with many local authorities now seeing it as a risk to their financial sustainability.

  2. Confirmed impacts: Drawing together information and insights across the adult care system

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    This impacts case study shows how our review of the whole adult care system and the increasing pressures on its financial and service sustainability aided the debate about meeting future care needs and highlighted the need for more research to identify the most effective ways of working.

    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.

  3. Reducing costs in the Department for Transport

    Report Value for money

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    The Department for Transport started its preparations for the 2010 spending review early and took steps to improve and challenge the evidence on which it based its decisions with a view to securing value for money.

  4. 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.

  5. The apprenticeships programme

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    This report assesses whether the apprenticeships programme is providing value for money.

  6. 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.

  7. Department for Education: The Academies Programme

    Report Value for money

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    Many academies are performing impressively in delivering the Academies Programme’s intended improvements. Most academies are achieving greater rates of improvement in academic attainment than their predecessor schools.

  8. NHS Ambulance Services

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    Demand for ambulance services continues to grow rapidly, but services are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with rising demand.

  9. Health and social care integration

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    The Better Care Fund has not achieved the expected value for money, in terms of savings, outcomes for patients or hospital activity.

  10. English devolution deals

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    Devolution deals to devolve power from central government to local areas in England offer opportunities to stimulate economic growth and reform public services for local users, but the arrangements are untested and government could do more to provide confidence that these deals will achieve the benefits intended

  11. Local welfare provision

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    Overall spending on discretionary local welfare support by central and local government has reduced since April 2013. The consequences of this gap in provision are not understood.

  12. Discharging older patients from hospital

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    There are currently far too many older people in hospitals who do not need to be there. Without radical action, this problem will worsen and add further financial strain to the NHS and local government.

  13. Financial management in the NHS – NHS Summarised Accounts 2004-2005

    Report Financial audit

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    There was a deficit across the NHS as a whole in 2004-05 for the first time since 1999-00. Latest figures also show the deficit has worsened for 2005-06. Compared to 2003-04, the number of NHS bodies with deficits increased, and more of these deficits were significant in size, according to Financial Management in the NHS, […]

  14. Helping victims and witnesses: the work of Victim Support

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    Victim Support is highly regarded by the 1.4 million victims and witnesses who make use of its services each year. But according to a National Audit Office report, published today, the rate at which victims are referred to Victim Support varies widely from area to area and only a small proportion of victims of unreported […]