Sentences with phrase «national audit office»

The LSC is under severe fire after a damning National Audit Office (NAO) review and qualification of its accounts.

In September 2017 I also commented on the National Audit Office report into rising clinical negligence costs here.

In October 2007 a junior official at HMRC sent two CDs to the National Audit Office (NAO) by courier.

Graham Robinson, infrastructure expert at Pinsent Masons, comments on the Government's policy on funding new infrastructure projects in the UK and the findings from the National Audit Office (NAO):

The government completed the sale of its 40 % stake in Eurostar for # 757m in March 2015, but later in the year the National Audit Office (NAO) found the sale had left the taxpayer up to # 2.3 bn out of pocket and criticised the # 2.8 m of legal fees paid to Freshfields.

The National Audit Office, reporting on renewable energies last week, said wind was the most expensive way to fund carbon emission reductions in Britain.

The contracts were awarded through a complex auction process, following criticism last year by the National Audit Office that a lack of competition in the system was allowing companies to push prices up at a cost to consumers.

«Yeo's first committee task will be to examine this month's National Audit Office report on government funding for renewable energy, covering taxpayer incentives and the «renewables obligation» scheme that forces electricity generators to invest in green energy.

The National Audit Office has concluded that high levels of disruption for passengers mean that, to date, the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern rail franchise has «not delivered value for money».

The Schools Week story also referred to the recent report by the National Audit Office (NAO) which again had found gaps in the evidence about teacher supply.

A recent report by the National Audit Office said the government had missed recruitment targets for teachers in England for four years, but the Department for Education says overall teacher numbers have risen.

Figures published as part of the National Audit Office's (NAO) Financial Sustainability of Schools found 24 authorities in which at least one in four of maintained schools posted a budget deficit.

They have protested that budgets have not kept up with rising costs - and highlighted a report from the National Audit Office saying schools face # 3bn in spending cuts.

Schools face 8 % budget cuts and about 60 % of secondary schools already have deficits, warns a funding analysis from the National Audit Office (NAO).

She also questioned Ofsted's capacity to inspect providers of the new apprenticeship, given that the National Audit Office has warned that the watchdog is yet to inspect 48 per cent of initial teacher training routes.

The schools minister was characteristically stoic in his continuing refusal to use the word «crisis» when he appeared on the BBC's Daily Politics programme earlier today, despite strong words from the National Audit Office in its report on the matter, released this morning.

The National Audit Office found that 57,500 of 113,500 new places in mainstream free schools opening between 2015 and 2021 will create «spare capacity» in the immediate areas of some of the institutions.

The government's decision to protect school funding only in flat cash terms per pupil leaves schools facing a real - term cut of # 3 billion by 2020, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

«The National Audit Office have already forecast an 8.5 % cut across the board which will have terrible consequences on the quality of education being offered to our children.

The public accounts committee earlier this month slammed the DfE for its lack of «leadership or urgency» in tackling supply issues, after a scathing report by the National Audit Office revealed a series of weaknesses in teacher training.

A 2017 National Audit Office (NAO) report states that mainstream schools will have to make # 3 billion in «efficiency savings» by 2019 - 20 against the backdrop of the increased costs.1

The National Audit Office has said that more than half (63 per cent) of the schools recently placed in special measures had not found new homes within nine months, and regional schools commissioners will be rated on the percentage of failing maintained schools they convert in that time.

The Department for Education was recently criticised by both the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee for having a lack of «leadership or urgency» and «no plan» to deal with recruitment.

The report comes on the back of a similarly scathing National Audit Office (NAO) study into teacher recruitment in February, which revealed a series of weaknesses in the government's strategy.

Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said: «Until the department meets its targets and can show how its approach is improving trainee recruitment, quality and retention, we can not conclude that the arrangements for training new teachers are value for money.»

«Following an Australian National Audit Office report in December that found that spending on specialist consulting contracts had grown from more than $ 200 million in 2012 - 13 to more than $ 500 million in 2016 - 17, the joint committee of public accounts and audits has asked government departments and agencies to explain their procurement spends.»

The announcement comes on the day the National Audit Office highlights the pupil premium - extra funding given to schools to help disadvantaged pupils fulfil their potential - has led to schools dramatically improving their focus on improving the life chances of disadvantaged pupils.

The National Audit Office said schools faced an 8 % real - terms reduction in funding per pupil by 2019 - 20 and cost pressures could result in «significant risks» in making the necessary spending cuts.

EFA was criticised by the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee recently for failing to have robust oversight of academies, so it appears to be a systemic issue across all types of school.

The National Audit Office also warned in 2016 that the government would have spent almost # 1 billion on bursaries for new teachers by this year, without their effectiveness being properly evaluated.

There have been warnings of four - day weeks and cuts in staffing and subjects - and the National Audit Office has warned of an 8 % real - terms funding gap for schools up to 2020.

Even so, if we assume that (as was the case up to March 2014) these costs consumed a quarter of all spending on free schools, the total expenditure on legal advice since 2010 would now be # 900 million — something that the DfE, the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee may all wish to reflect on.

In an interesting piece of timing, on the very day the NFF Stage 2 consultation was published, the National Audit Office published a report «Financial Sustainability of Schools».

The Spectator gives an overview of the National Audit Office report on Establishing Free Schools.

Heads have been protesting that school budgets have failed to keep up with rising costs - highlighting a National Audit Office report of a # 3bn funding gap.

Many of the government's multimillion - pound university technical colleges have «failed to establish their position in the educational landscape», and other new institutions are at risk of going the same way, according to the National Audit Office.

Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), comments on the Government's apprenticeship programme in the light of the National Audit Office report.

Two - thirds of school leaders say they use it, according to a recent independent survey by the National Audit Office.

The chancellor is promising # 216m to renovate schools - while the National Audit Office says that bringing schools up to standard would cost # 6.7 bn.

Mr Twigg's comments come less than two weeks after the National Audit Office warned that a quarter of a million extra school places would be needed in England by autumn 2014.

The National Audit Office has previously said schools are facing the worst budget squeeze since the mid-1990s.

The National Audit Office has published a wide - ranging report on science, technology, engineering and maths skills.

«Its plans, outlined in the Queen's speech, will add to the chaos the Government is already presiding over - chaos with primary tests, the specifications for GCSEs, AS and A-levels running late, and the Department for Education's (DfE) accounts being criticised by the National Audit Office for the second year running.

«As February's National Audit Office report highlighted, teacher supply is becoming a critical issue in many schools,» said Ms Ellis.

Opposition MPs highlighted a National Audit Office report that schools faced # 3bn in spending cuts and a forecast from the Institute for Fiscal Studies of an 8 % real - term cut.

And in December, the National Audit Office warned state schools in England would have to find # 3bn in savings by 2019 - 20.

The system used by the government to convert local authority - maintained schools into academies is under National Audit Office scrutiny.

It is now the auditor's responsibility to inform both the National Audit Office and the EFA if accounts are qualified.

The National Audit Office said the DfE should set out a «clearer vision» for the school system as a whole, to clarify how academies, maintained schools and local authorities should work together across the country.

In its most recent report on teacher supply the National Audit Office recommended that the government help teachers to buy homes in high cost areas — we've heard a motion on that issue this morning at this conference.