Programme of performance audits for 2012/13 published

14 October 2011 Share this LinkedIn

Over the summer, we consulted on proposals for our rolling programme
of national performance audits. The proposals included a mix of different
sizes of projects ranging from smaller audits focusing on single issues, to
larger cross-cutting audits, focusing on the delivery of major services by
partners in different parts of the public sector.

Over 60 organisations from central and local government, the health
sector and other audit agencies responded, and we would like to thank
everyone who contributed.

Overall, there was strong support for the proposed topics. Most of the comments focused on the scope and timing of proposed
performance audits rather than raising any challenge to their relevance or
value.

Respondents also strongly supported the href="/work/forwardwork_consult.php#themes"> class="highlight">five strategic themes that
underpin our performance audit work.

Based on the comments we received, we have made a number of changes
to the href="/work/forwardwork_consult.php">2012/13 programme
. We have removed the audits on community
safety/crime prevention and the Scotland rural development fund from the
rolling programme, and brought forward an audit on outsourced contracts to
start in 2012.

We also plan to start work on the General Practitioner (GP) prescribing audit later than originally planned, in
May 2012, when new data becomes available.