Evaluating innovation in children’s social care
Published on:This report examines the Department for Education’s evaluation of the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.
This report examines the Department for Education’s evaluation of the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.
This report assesses the problems that the Ajax programme has encountered and the challenges the MoD faces in delivering it.
We commissioned some work with two volunteer Departments in Spring 2008 to assess the measurability, relevance and costability of Departmental Strategic Objectives – with a view to informing wider guidance on integrating financial and performance management and reporting.
The National Offender Management Service Executive Agency (NOMS) has obtained good value for money from its expenditure on prison maintenance, the National Audit Office has today reported. In spite of an increasing prisoner population – over 73,000 people held in custody in public sector prisons in England & Wales in 2007-08 – spending has been […]
This report looks at the Restoration and Renewal Programme to identify potential risks and recommend how these may be addressed.
This report examines whether the Ministry of Defence has managed to reduce the risks to affordability in its Equipment Plan.
The National Audit Office has examined the role of of the Department for Transport in assessing the revised proposals for light rail schemes in Leeds, Manchester and South Hampshire. Funding for these three schemes was originally approved by the Department in 2000 and 2001. But substantial increases in projected costs led to the Department withdrawing […]
This report assesses whether the Home Office’s activities for enforcing immigration rules are achieving its vision.
This report examines the progress the government has made in developing specialist skills in the civil service.
This report examines how government has set itself up to deliver its long-term environmental goals.
This study examined whether the MoD gets the capabilities it requires when it needs them to meet its defence objectives.
Building and improving the country’s roads are proving to be more expensive than originally estimated, according to a new report published today by the National Audit Office. The report looks at the Highways Agency’s investment in motorways and major trunk roads and local authority major roads schemes funded by the Department for Transport. The Department […]
This report applies experience from auditing cross-government challenges to highlight the risks government needs to manage to achieve net zero.
This report examines how the DWP is managing the process of getting to first payment in Universal Credit.
This report sets out insights for government from its preparations for EU Exit.
This is the second NAO report on government’s approach to test and trace services in England.
This report examines the performance, implementation, procurement and management of the Green Homes Grant scheme.
This report establishes the facts on how the government has provided accommodation for rough sleepers during COVID-19.
The NAO challenges government and its private sector contractors to work together more effectively in taxpayers’ interest and address the issues behind the current crisis of confidence in contracting out public services.
In its progress report on the Olympic and Paralympic Games the National Audit Office has found that with four years to go until the start of the Games, the preparations have progressed in important ways. In particular, there has been good progress in preparing the Olympic Park site and construction activities are broadly on track. […]