Performance audit group
Performance Audit Group is responsible for delivering the Auditor General's and Accounts Commission's programme of national performance audits. This work involves us looking at particular services or policy areas from a national perspective and assessing whether the resources (for example, money and people) used in delivering these services are being used both efficiently and effectively.
Our work covers the whole of the public sector, looking at services delivered by the NHS, local authorities and central government bodies – including looking how the Scottish Government itself is performing. Our reports are considered by both the Accounts Commission and the Public Audit Committee of the Scottish Parliament. The Public Audit Committee uses the evidence in our reports to hold the most senior people within the Scottish Government and other public bodies to account for their use of public money.
The Group currently has around 45 staff, with a wide range of skills and experience, who work in small teams on individual performance audits. We work closely with the bodies we are auditing, with other auditors, external researchers, and the other scrutiny and inspection bodies, to make sure our reports are of the highest quality, and lead to measurable improvements in Scotland's public services.
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