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Recovering from the global pandemic will take time. The public bodies who keep us safe, well and healthy will find themselves in a changed operating environment, with financial issues to address, a change in citizen and visitor behaviour and expectations, and workforces that need to adapt to new ways of working. We will all have…
When I started the interim audit of the Senedd Commission remotely in March after returning from college, I never thought I’d be completing the final audit in May remotely too! It was certainly a strange reintroduction to audit work after two and a half months of study, but I had my second screen and desk…
About the Author Matt Brushett is a Senior Auditor at Audit Wales. During his seven years at Audit Wales, he has undertaken a variety of roles in performance audit, including work in health and central government studies. Since 2018, Matt has worked on all-Wales local government studies and carries out audit work at Fire &…
About the Author Andrew Strong has worked for Audit Wales and its predecessor bodies since 2002. He is currently a Financial Audit Lead in the IM&T Audit team working on a wide range of IT audit, data analytics and digital reviews across the Welsh Public Sector. Andrew is a certified information systems auditor as well…
About the Author Lucy Herman is a Senior Auditor in West Wales and has been with the organisation close to 10 years gaining a wide range of experiences working across a range of Public Sector financial audits. Lucy is a Chartered Accountant and Member of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales gaining her qualification through…
About the author Mark Jeffs is an Audit Manager in the National Studies Team. He currently manages a range of value for money studies, including studies on fuel poverty, Brexit and our Picture of Public Services work. He has been with Audit Wales and predecessor bodies since 2004. Blog summary As we move out of…
About the author Nick Selwyn is a Local Government Manager at Audit Wales, with responsibilities for our programme of all-Wales local government studies and our work with Fire and Rescue and National Park authorities. Prior to joining Audit Wales 15 years ago he worked for several local authorities in housing and social care and is…
About the author Nick Selwyn is a Local Government Manager at Audit Wales, with responsibilities for our programme of all-Wales local government studies and our work with Fire and Rescue and National Park authorities. Prior to joining Audit Wales 15 years ago he worked for several local authorities in housing and social care and is…
Emergency governance arrangements were quickly put in place to respond to the pandemic Given the unprecedented situation and the speed with which the pandemic took hold in March, it was inevitable that emergency governance arrangements would be needed. Whilst even before lockdown, legislation was in place that allowed councillors to take part in any council…
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. Our work has highlighted some areas relating to supporting people with mental health needs, which we thought would be good to share, so we will be tweeting…
