January 2025: audit opinion data
We have recently published the number of audit opinions delivered up to 31 January 2025 on our website. Data for previous months can be viewed on our monthly audit opinion data page.
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February 2025 update
Read more of: February 2025 updateThis edition of our quarterly e-bulletin includes an update on the local audit backlog situation, details of our new Board and Audit Committee appointments, and a summary of local audit news from elsewhere. We hope that you continue to find our e-bulletin to be useful. We welcome your thoughts on future topics that you would […]
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Press release: PSAA appoints new Board members
Read more of: Press release: PSAA appoints new Board membersPSAA is pleased to announce the appointment from 1 February of Alan Edwards, Irene Asare and Liz Murrall as Directors on the PSAA Board and of Adrian Lythgo as independent member on the Audit Committee. Current directors Fraser McKinlay and Marta Phillips are stepping down from the Board on 28 February and 31 March respectively. […]
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PSAA response to MHCLG’s consultation on local audit reform in England
Read more of: PSAA response to MHCLG’s consultation on local audit reform in EnglandOn 18 December MHCLG launched a consultation on Local audit reform: a strategy for overhauling the local audit system in England. We welcomed the strategy to develop a more cohesive system geared to the sector’s needs that provides assurance over the use of public money. The strategy commits to a series of measures to fix […]
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December 2024: audit opinion data
Read more of: December 2024: audit opinion dataWe have recently published the number of audit opinions delivered up to 31 December 2024 on our website. Data for previous months can be viewed on our monthly audit opinion data page.
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CIPFA LASAAC consultation on the 2025/26 Code of Practice on Local Authority Financial Reporting in the UK
Read more of: CIPFA LASAAC consultation on the 2025/26 Code of Practice on Local Authority Financial Reporting in the UKCIPFA LASAAC has issued its annual consultation on the 2025/26 Code of Practice on Local Authority Accounting in the UK (the Code). This will apply to accounting periods starting on or after 1 April 2025. The deadline for responses is 14 February 2025.
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Press release: Local government audit opinion data
Read more of: Press release: Local government audit opinion dataAuditors have reported issuing 361 disclaimed opinions due to the backstop as of 13 December 2024 for the years up to 2022/23. The 40 non-standard opinions in the table below include 8 disclaimed opinions that auditors have not attributed to the backstop. There are a further 77 opinions that remain outstanding for the years 2018/19 […]
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Press release: Local audit reform strategy
Read more of: Press release: Local audit reform strategyPSAA welcomes MHCLG’s local audit reform strategy, which follows on from Monday’s announcement of the intention to create a new local audit body. We are strong advocates of overhauling the local audit system. Despite sustained and determined effort by system partners the current arrangements have not enabled resolution of the issues. This has resulted in […]
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Press release: Further action to address the broken local audit system
Read more of: Press release: Further action to address the broken local audit systemPSAA welcomes today’s announcement by the Government (refer to page 103) on further action it intends to take to address the local audit crisis as a part of the promised overhaul, by establishing a new body for local audit. We have previously stated our strong support for the Government’s commitment to ‘overhaul the local audit […]
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NAO issues an overview of MHCLG
Read more of: NAO issues an overview of MHCLGThe NAO has issued an Overview of the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) 2023/24 as part of their series of overviews for the new Parliament.