Our fresh look newsletter

We’re excited to unveil the newly refreshed Audit Wales newsletter - your go-to source for the latest updates, insights, and stories from across our organisation.

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Wales Life Sciences Investment Fund

‘Aspects of its establishment, governance, oversight and early operation were flawed and poorly documented’, says Auditor General, but the concept of the Fund is innovative and has many merits.

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Health boards need to strengthen their arrangements for mana...

Local systems are not robust enough to provide assurance that private patients who subsequently transfer to the NHS for treatment are not unfairly advantaged

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Natural Resources Wales well-placed to continue delivering i...

But faces significant challenges as it responds to funding pressures and takes on new responsibilities

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Welsh Government undertook appropriate due diligence for Car...

Although progress is slower than forecast at the time of acquisition

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Bridgend council making good progress towards securing futur...

Council’s consultation on future priorities will help it prepare for challenges ahead says Auditor General 

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New study launched to look at council income generation

Have your say as a small business or service user in our national survey.

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2014-15 Local Government Accounts

Local government bodies generally prepared good quality financial statements on time. However an increased number of statements required material amendment and auditors reported concerns to a few bodies about the quality of supporting working papers
 

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

From all of us here at the Wales Audit Office, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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A Picture of Public Services: What does the report say?

The Auditor General urges public services to radically change if they are to meet the challenges they face now and in the future.

But how? Our video tells you more.

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Progress being made but pace of public services change ‘stil...

Auditor General urges public services to increase the scale and pace of transformation

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Pembrokeshire County Council recognises that it needs a new ...

And improved arrangements to deliver its priorities.

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Delivering with less – Leisure Services

Some councils still too slow to realise opportunities to reduce expenditure on leisure services and need to consider alternative models of delivery to reduce cost.

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Anglesey County Council making progress in strengthening arr...

But more needs to be done to use staff and other resources more strategically 

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Wales Audit Office publishes review on progress to its appro...

First joint report by the Auditor General for Wales and Wales Audit Office highlights good progress in meeting objectives of Joint Strategic Equality Plan

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Survey launched on audited bodies’ linguistic preferences

We’ve issued a language preference survey asking our audited bodies to state in which language they would prefer to receive documents and services from us.

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