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  1. Homelessness

    Report Value for money

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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. Market Analytic Toolkit: for assessing public service markets

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    This toolkit is designed to guide those overseeing public service markets or assessing the effectiveness of these markets in terms of value for money and user outcomes. It helps government address a set of new challenges around its use of markets to deliver public services, including oversight, consumer protection, regulation and helping to achieve effective competition and innovative delivery.

  3. Protecting information across government

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    The Cabinet Office has not yet established a clear role for itself in coordinating and leading departments’ efforts to protect their information, according to the National Audit Office. Today’s report found that its ambition to undertake such a role is weakened by the limited information which departments collect on their security costs, performance and risks. […]

  5. The Government Procurement Card

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    Used appropriately, GPC can be a cost-effective way for government to procure goods and services. However, there is no up to date value-for-money case quantifying the benefits of the cards. There has also been a lack of clear central guidance on when the cards are the most appropriate way to procure goods and services.

  6. 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.

  7. Impacts from our work, 2014

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    This interactive publication summarises examples of ways our work has led to financial and non-financial impacts.

  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. Fraud landscape review

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    The exact scale of fraud within government is unknown. The quality and completeness of fraud data is often variable.

  10. Housing in England: overview

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    The need for housing in England has in recent years grown faster than its supply, and housebuilding needs to increase across the country.

  12. The introduction of the Work Programme

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    The Department for Work and Pensions has introduced the Work Programme quickly, in just over a year, and this has had benefits, but the speed with which it was launched has also increased risks. The Department and providers have made assumptions about how many people the Programme will get back into work but there is a significant risk that they are over-optimistic.

  13. The new generation electronic monitoring programme

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    The case for a huge expansion of electronic monitoring using GPS was unproven, but the Ministry of Justice pursued an overly ambitious and high risk strategy anyway. Ultimately it has not delivered.

  15. 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.

  18. Fraud and Error Stocktake

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    The government continues to lose large amounts of money through fraud and error overpayments and many vulnerable people get less support than they are entitled to.

  19. 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.

  20. Investigation into supported housing

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    Report summarising the National Audit Office’s (NAO) investigation into the provision of supported housing in England