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Ten years on: the lasting impact of the Audit Wales trainee scheme

When I joined the Audit Wales trainee programme a decade ago, I never imagined how much it would shape my career and personal growth.

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International lessons for Welsh public bodies in responding ...

Recovering from the global pandemic will take time.

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Remote auditing (a trainee’s perspective)

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It’s all in the data…

Data is part of our everyday lives

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Hitting our accounts deadlines whilst working from home

Andrew Strong explains how Audit Wales secured access to NHS financial ledgers to enable us to complete NHS accounts work.

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Final Accounts auditing from home

Lucy Herman recounts her experiences leading the audit of Public Services Ombudsman for Wales

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Dancing to a new beat: the next phase of public services’ re...

As we move out of the lockdown, public services face a new and uncertain ‘new normal’. What are the lessons we can take into this new normal from the initial response to the virus? This article draws on a widely read blog on the ‘hammer and the dance’ published in March 2020.

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Part 2: The impact of Coronavirus on people sleeping rough –...

Coronavirus has affected all of us; but the impact on homeless people has been far more drastic.

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Part 1: More than just a housing problem – the cost of faili...

Working in homelessness I often heard the question ‘Why do people become homeless?’

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Local council democracy – coming out of lockdown

Emergency governance arrangements were quickly put in place to respond to the pandemic

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Mental health during COVID-19

We are looking at practice across public sectors, to see how organisations are responding to the impact of COVID-19 and how they are working differently to provide services.

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Welsh Government COVID-19 funding

In May, the Welsh Government published new spending plans in response to COVID-19.

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COVID-19: Test, Trace and Protect – councils and local healt...

Promoting and signposting Test, Trace and Protect well can make testing more effective and can help prepare citizens to react appropriately if contacted by tracing teams.

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