National studies
Our national reports and studies help public bodies manage the financial challenges they face by providing authoritative, unbiased, evidence-based analysis and advice.
Research focuses on financial and other management issues in local public services. It draws on analysis of local and national data and aims to help councils, NHS bodies and other local agencies review and challenge their current arrangements and performance.
Work in progress
The Audit Commission and Local Government Association joint report ‘Work in progress: Meeting local needs with lower workforce costs’.
Joining up health and social care
This briefing has found significant differences in the types of care received by people aged 65 and over across the country.
Tough times 2011
The Audit Commission has published Tough times, a new report looking at councils’ responses to a challenging financial climate.
Protecting the public purse 2011
England’s councils have succeeded in detecting £185 million worth of fraud, an improvement of 37 per cent on last year’s figure of £135 million. This is equivalent to a year’s funding for around 700 libraries or the wages of up to 11,000 care workers.
Improving coding, costing and commissioning: Annual report on the Payment by Results data assurance programme 2010/11
In our annual report looking at the Payment by Results (PbR) data assurance programme, ‘Improving coding, costing and commissioning: Annual report on the Payment by Results data assurance programme 2010/11′, we say that the data used to inform the current …