• Wales “working well” to implement fiscal devolution
    The Welsh Revenue Authority and Welsh Treasury are working well to implement plans to transfer certain taxes and borrowing powers from the UK Gover
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  • Local Government needs to do more to develop a strong data culture
    Local authorities in Wales are sitting on a ‘rich vein’ of personal, financial and community data that could help them develop more efficient and e
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  • Public interest reports into failures in governance and financial management at four community councils
    Similar issues were identified at each of the councils. Typically, these were:
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  • The Welsh Government’s relationship with Pinewood
    It sets out the facts associated with the Collaboration Agreement entered into by both parties in February 2014 to promote TV and film production i
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  • Council investment in accommodation for adults with learning disabilities is meeting current demand
    Local authorities need to address significant challenges if they are to ensure they continue to meet the long-term accommodation needs of p
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  • People facing language and communication barriers need more support to help access public services
    Public bodies can do more to help people who face language and communication barriers access the services they need.
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  • The housing adaptation system in Wales is ‘complicated, reactive and unfair’
    The current system for delivering housing adaptations needs to change in order to meet the needs of older and disabled people in Wales.
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  • Local authorities making good progress on implementing new homelessness duties
    The latest report from the Auditor General for Wales has looked at how Local Authorities are implementing their new duties and managing the
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  • Countdown to fiscal devolution ‘going well’ despite some challenges
    On the 1 April 2018 Wales will be given its first devolved tax powers in over 800 years.
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  • Is the National Procurement Service delivering for Wales?
    Public bodies spent £234 million through the NPS in 2016-17, but this was well short of previous estimates, a report by the Auditor General
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  • How councils in Wales are dealing with service change
    Councils in Wales are having to make important decisions about the future shape and level of services they deliver.
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  • Supporting People Programme provides important services but needs to improve
    The Welsh Government invested £124.5 million in its Supporting People Programme (the Programme) in 2016-17, to support vulnerable people in
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  • Local government bodies continue to face challenges in producing and improving timely annual accounts
    Wales’ local government bodies improved the quality of their pre-audit annual accounts for 2015-16, but still face challenges in the medium
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  • Welsh Government ‘well prepared to take on fiscal devolution responsibilities’
    The Welsh Government is preparing well to take on its fiscal devolution responsibilities, in what will be the first time in over 800 years
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  • Local authorities are not pursuing all options to generate income
    Our latest report, Charging for services and generating income by local authorities, looks at how local authorities are using charging for
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