Emily Twinch 02 December 2024

Reform: Oflog should become local audit system leader

The Government body in charge of councils' performance in England should be extended so it becomes a local audit system leader, a think-tank has said today.

Reform said in a report that the ability of the system of local government audit had ‘all but collapsed'.

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