• Caerphilliy Council makes good progress over recent audit recommendations
    The Auditor General has released a follow-up report on Caerphilly Council.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Pensions opt out payments at Pembrokeshire Council ‘unlawful’
    The decision to allow certain senior officers at Pembrokeshire Council to receive payments equivalent to the employers’ pension contributions if th
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  • Carmarthenshire Council’s pension and libel payments ‘unlawful’
    Carmarthenshire County Council acted ‘contrary to law’ by making a decision that allows senior officers to opt out of the Local Government Pension
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  • Councils: ‘Get a longer term grip on the financial challenges ahead!’
    Councils in Wales have been able to meet the financial challenges so far – despite considerable pressures - but the cracks are beginning to show.
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  • Caerphilly Council ‘Improving’ In Response To Governance Failings
    Corporate governance failings at Caerphilly Council were caused by a combination of weaknesses and, while the authority is improving now, it is too
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  • Financial accounts of Welsh councils and police bodies
    The quality of local government financial accounts, submitted each year to the Auditor General for Wales, is generally getting better - and all acc
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  • Caerphilly Council car and leave allowances payments 'unlawful'
    Caerphilly County Borough Council acted unlawfully when it paid its Chief Officers to 'buy out' their entitlements to an Essential Car User Allowan
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