Annual Reports
Newswire - WAO: The Wales Audit Office has recently revealed its 3-year vision for helping improve public services in Wales. The strategy for 2009-2012 - Sustained Impact in a Time of Change - details how the organisation intends to support the Auditor General in promoting improvements to public services, through audit & inspection work, in an environment of considerable change & economic constraints.
The organisation has developed 6 main strategic themes for particular focus over the next 3 years and will focus on these themes by:
* providing assurance about how public money is being spent
* promoting improvement in services for citizens
* helping decision-makers understand the issues & challenges public services face
Press release ~ Wales Audit Office Strategy 2009-2012: Sustained impact in a time of change ~ Click here to view presentation ~ National Audit Office in Wales
ScotGov: ‘Scotland must build on a year of significant progress on the road to recovery from drug misuse’, Minister for Community Safety Fergus Ewing said speaking on the eve of the first anniversary of the launch of the national drugs strategy as he met service users & project workers at Edinburgh's Simpson House, which offers specialist counselling for people affected by their own or another's drug use.
The Minister also published a progress report setting out some of the key steps taken by the Scottish Government and other agencies to help deliver the strategy's objectives - through education & prevention to enforcement and improved access to treatment & other services.
Press release ~ The Road to Recovery: One year On ~ Drugs strategy ~ Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams (SAADAT) ~ Scottish Network for Families Affected by Drugs (SNFAD) ~ Edinburgh's Simpson House
HM Treasury: The 2009 Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) National Statistics First Release has been published. This is an annual publication of statistical data on public expenditure outturn from 2003-04 to 2007-08.
