As local government prepares for the end of the Audit Commission and a new private market, there are warning signs from the NHS experience Read more
Today’s announcement on private sector contracts for Audit Commission work confirms that the ‘mutual option’ was always a non-starter for public audit – and for the wider public sector too Read more
An internal audit report has highlighted concerns over procurement processes at the London Borough of Barnet. This raises questions about the council’s general outsourcing proposals and also the government’s wider privatisation plans Read more
The Christmas reception season is in full swing. One of the things that I am finding is that several good friends have left or are about the leave the Audit Commission – one of the first casualties of the coalition government’s cull of public spending. Read more...
So the Audit Commission is to be abolished. Prior to the election, many of us talked about the abolition of quangos as a cost reduction exercise but we didn’t really think the Audit Commission would be on the hit list – it seemed too important an instrument of central government control. Read more...
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