• Corporate arrangements for safeguarding are 'variable' across Wales
    The Auditor General has released his report looking into the corporate arrangements of councils in Wales for the safeguarding of children.
  • Welsh Government cannot demonstrate value for money from land sale
    The Auditor General for Wales has completed a detailed value for money (VfM) study into the sale of publicly-owned land and property assets by
  • Swansea Council improving across a range of services
    Swansea Council can demonstrate improvement across a range of key services and has developed a clear framework for managing future challenges.
  • Newport Council showing improvement in some key areas
    Newport City Council has made improvements in some aspects of its arrangements but has not achieved the scale and pace of change required and longs
  • Superfast Cymru Making Reasonable Progress
    The Auditor General has today reported that the Welsh Government’s Superfast Cymru contract, signed with BT in 2012 and supported by up to £205 mil
  • Flintshire County Council has made significant progress in difficult areas
    Flintshire County Council’s track record suggests it is likely to respond positively to the internal and significant external challenges it faces,
  • Caerphilliy Council makes good progress over recent audit recommendations
    The Auditor General has released a follow-up report on Caerphilly Council.
  • Welfare Reform changes are having a significant impact on social housing providers and tenants
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  • Neath Port Talbot Council 'delivering key priorities'
    Neath Port Talbot Council is delivering its key priorities, according to a report by the Auditor General for Wales.
  • Same Picture: Different Lenses
    For the first time ever, major external review figures in Wales have joined forces to stage an event which will explore some of the common them
  • Ceredigion Council’s corporate performance culture 'helping to drive improvements'
    And having carried out an internal restructure of senior management, is demonstrating a corporate performance culture which has good potential to d
  • Welsh Councils getting better at challenging themselves but more consistency is needed to improve accountability
    Local government scrutiny in Wales is improving but councils need to be more consistent in their approach if they are to add value on behalf of the
  • Auditor General Examining Welsh Government’s investment in broadband
    The examination is part of his programme of value for money reviews and will answer the question: “Is the Welsh Government’s approach to rollin
  • Management of latest EU Structural Fund Programmes in Wales ‘Improved’
    The 2007-2013 EU structural funding programmes in Wales – which help deliver jobs, growth and sustainable development - has progressed well compare
  • Welsh Government location strategy ‘delivered its objectives’
    The Welsh Government delivered the objectives of its Location Strategy, and by April 2012 had relocated more than 550 posts from Cardiff to three n