Technical + Audit
Fiscal devolution: audit must be ‘even more robust’ than under Audit Commission
Fiscal devolution will require local audit arrangements that are even more robust than those that existed in the era of the Audit Commission, auditor general Gareth Davies has warned.
(Shutterstock)
News-in-Brief
Bill Butler: local audit crisis ‘professionally embarrassing and intolerable’
Action to tackle the local audit crisis has moved the system from ‘intensive care to the high dependency unit’, according to the government’s preferred candidate to chair the new Local Audit Office (LAO).
(Shutterstock)
Events
LATIF Online October 2026
-
Online
Teams Live,
Room151’s LGPS Investment Forum 2026
-
Royal College of Surgeons, 38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields,
London, WC2A 3PE
Most read
- Fiscal devolution: audit must be ‘even more robust’ than under Audit Commission(170 views)
- Audit completion up but improved guidance on reforms needed, finds PSAA(127 views)
- Still time to take Room151’s treasury and current affairs survey(48 views)
- Dan Bates: early indications from 2025/26 accounts shows contrasting picture(36 views)
- Treasury management issues ‘increasingly causing’ audit backstop date failures(35 views)
