Sentences with phrase «nao report»

It's not clear whether the ICO will be investigating further, or taking action as a result of the NAO report (their response to my tweeted question — «We will be considering the contents of the report in more detail.

They could do with changing the culture in the Department itself, of a) wasting money on pet projects like Free Schools that don't materialise or need vast debts written off, b) failing to assess risks of funding reforms and provide enough funding for pupil number increases and cost pressures (NAO report) and c) inability to reconcile accounts for academies and LA schools even when challenged formally by Parliamentary Committees.

The overall budget is protected against inflation, but the NAO report says that rising numbers of pupils will mean schools will face cuts in real - terms per - pupil income.

The DfE was forced to respond to issues raised in an NAO report on financial sustainability published in December.

The NAO report recognises this.

Ms Powell has said the NAO report should be a «further wake - up call for the government», which she said was «in denial and neglectful» about teacher shortages.

His comments echo those of a Conservative source in response to the NAO report, which said the «negative picture» painted by the unions was the «greatest threat» to recruitment and called on unions and Labour politicians to back the government's plans to increase teacher numbers.

It is therefore of concern that the NAO report highlighted that the DfE «does not yet know why some academy sponsors are more successful than others».

He may be right in saying that they have appointed more teachers since coming to power, but it's nowhere near enough, and this NAO report highlights the ineptitude of the DfE in addressing this problem in damning fashion.In all of the «thousands of classes» he has seen in the 400 schools he has visited, he doesn't seem to have picked up on this problem which is exercising head teachers across the country.

According to the NAO report, these free school land acquisitions have cost # 850m over the last five years and officials had been paying «premium» prices.

«This NAO report provides a challenging judgement on the work of this government in meeting its responsibilities around evidence - informed and impactful spending of scarce public resources in education, particularly around the improvement and retention of the existing teaching workforce.

The NAO report examined whether the DfE was well placed to support schools and ensure that by 2020 schools will have the skills, capability and tools to manage pressures on their budgets without affecting their ability to deliver education to the required standards.

However, the NAO report points out that since the white paper, «the government has modified its ambition and no longer expects all schools to become academies».

The NAO report says that the free school programme had seen «much lower average construction costs than in previous programmes» - on average 45 % lower - by using «existing properties, reduced building specifications and smaller space standards».

However, the NAO report also found that a greater number of qualified teachers are returning to state - funded schools, and the Department and schools have scope to attract back, even more, teachers who have left and benefit from the investment made in their training.

Former Labour welfare reform minister Frank Field said the NAO report «spelled the beginning of the political end for the universal credit dream» and urged the government to «pull the plug on it».

«The department was warned repeatedly about the lack of a detailed «blueprint», «architecture» or «target operating model» for universal credit,» says the NAO report.

He insists universal credit will be delivered «in time and on budget,» and says the NAO report is dealing with «historic» issues.

It would be quite unreasonable to take anything in the NAO report are justifying abandoning the policy of introducing Universal Credit.

The ambitious timetable created pressure on the department to act quickly and meant that it needed to manage progress tightly,» says the NAO report.

Home Office minister Tony McNulty welcomed the NAO report as proof the government's approach «is working».

Cameron replied that the NAO report credited the Government for «successfully implementing the entitlement to free childcare for three and four - year - olds with almost universal take - up of entitlement».

The NAO report noted that victims of the 2005 London bombings, which resulted in 52 people dead and over 770 wounded, had not been affected by CICA's bad practices.

The NAO report said the re-targeting meant the department had to do more to combat corruption and fraud and use financial professionals to a greater extent, especially to provide better forecasting.

The NAO report is also critical of government departments» failure to monitor their own environmental impact.

«The NAO report is a welcome wake - up call that tells it how it is.

The PAC is there to pick up an NAO report.

The NAO report concluded: «the government lacks a coherent cross-government strategy, underpinned by policy, to support measures to tackle the rising cost of clinical negligence» [2].

«The NAO report recognises that the main drivers of increasing compensation payments and legal costs, especially the legal environment, are beyond the control of NHS trusts and the Department of Health.

The Government is still by far the largest shareholder, with a 30 % holding in the new company (NAO report)

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Today's NAO report found that overall performance was improving but that G4S and Serco were still failing to meet some of their key performance targets.

• Key quotes from the NAO report: o «The source of many problems has been the absence of a detailed view of how Universal Credit is meant to work» [page 33] o «The Department is unable to explain to us why it originally decided to aim for national roll - out from October 2013» [Para 3.7] o «In early 2013, it (DWP) did not have a convincing strategic plan in place» [3.35] o «It is unlikely that UC will be as simple or cheap to administer as originally intended» [15, summary] o «the Department has not achieved value for money... wider concerns about the Department's ability to deal with weak programme management, over-optimistic timescales and a lack of openness about progress.»

We can get some indication from a recent NAO report (Central government staff costs, 2015) which used unpublished Cabinet Office data to calculate that the total annualised salary cost for the civil service in 2014 was # 11.13 billion, a decrease of # 2.49 billion in real terms on 2010.

Its hearings and final reports regularly attract media attention in addition to the NAO reports themselves.

While the overall number of teachers has kept pace with changing pupil numbers, the NAO reported that 54 per cent of school leaders in areas with large proportions of disadvantaged pupils find attracting and keeping good teachers is «a major problem».

Not exact matches

Opening of High Speed 2's London to Birmingham phase is already at risk of delay according to a new report by the National Audit Office (NAO) which highlights cost and schedule pressures on the project.

NAO chief Amyas Morse said: «The continuing problems highlighted in my report show that, if it is to make the most of the money available, the department has more to do to address its longstanding issues on project performance.»

Defence secretary Phillip Hammond responds to a report by the National Auditing Office (NAO) which criticises the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for poor planning:

The National Audit Office (NAO) is currently investigating the business settlements mentioned in the report.

The employment gap between ethnic minorities and the rest of the UK population could take 30 years to close, a National Audit Office (NAO) report warns.

A report released today by the National Auditing Office (NAO) criticises the Ministry of Defence (MOD) for savagely cutting its headcount without proper planning

The NAO finds the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has made «real and substantial progress» since its last report in 2002, noting that # 6 billion was given out in pension credits to 2.7 million pensioner households last year - a take up rate of about 69 per cent.

But a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) today revealed the categorical failure of previous attempts to change welfare payments, particularly in the case of incapacity benefits.

To a certain extent, what King and Crewe describe isn't original — successive reports by the PAC and NAO have provided the evidence, and recently Richard Bacon MP and Christopher Hope wrote a similar book, entitled Conundrum.

The report by the National Audit Office (NAO) claimed that decisions made in order to save money in the short term, like slowing the production of the Successor nuclear submarine, added an extra # 200 million to the overall cost of the project.

The report condemns the CICA's processes as «bureaucratic and repetitive» and NAO head Sir John Bourn warned such delays could make it more difficult for victims to recover from a traumatic experience.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) expressed concern over the use of consultants following today's National Audit Office (NAO) report into the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

A report due to be published next month by the National Audit Office (NAO) is expected to criticise the Department of Health for failing to properly consult with health staff on the IT upgrade, and Lord Warner today admitted this was «a fair criticism in part».

In the wake of numerous «bogus college» scandals, the tightening of the student rules under Tier (4), which is also due to be the subject of a separate report by the NAO, will require all institutions to hold «highly trusted» sponsor status.