Report Finance Grants Management in Wales Since 2005, the Wales Audit Office has alsopublished major reports on a range of topics related to public grants. We bring this range of insight together in this report, to answer the question, ‘Are Welsh public sector grants well managed?’ View more
Report Arts, culture and leisure Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council Corporate Assessment 20... This report sets out the findings of the Corporate Assessment only and is designed to answer the question: ‘Are the Council’s arrangements likely to secure continuous improvement? View more
Report Health and social care Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Annual Audit Report... This report summarises my findings from the audit work I have undertaken at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (the UHB) during 2011. View more
Report Wales Audit Office estimate of income and expenditure for th... The Auditor General is required to prepare an annual estimate of the income and expenditure of the Wales Audit Office to be submitted to the Public Accounts Committee. View more
Report Arts, culture and leisure A Picture of Public Services 2011 The first Picture of Public Services Report, published in March 2010, estimated the financial challenges facing public services in Wales and key lessons from the work undertaken by my staff and contractors. The purpose of this second Picture of Public Services report is to provide greater clarity on the current position and support public services in responding to the financial challenges. View more
Report Electricity Savings at the International Sports Village - Ne... The Council's Energy team has introduced a number of energy-saving initiatives within Newport's International Sports Village. The latter is made up of two buildings - one is comprised ofa swimming pool complex, fitness facilities and an indoor tennis centre; whereas and the second building is a Velodrome. These facilities inherently consume large amounts of electricity on air handling, low pressure hot water pumping and lighting loads. View more
Report Health and social care Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board Annual Audit R... An interim annual letter was presented to Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board (the Health Board) in June 2010. That report related to my audit work in the final six-month period to 30 September 2009 of the Health Board’s predecessor bodies. View more
Report Energy Efficiency Building - Rhondda Cynon Taf County Boroug... The County Council built an energy efficiency edifice of 1,032m to replace an old nursery unit. It now serves as a nursery, a creche, as well as a meeting room complex. The local residents and prospective end users were requested to provide their input on the project before its initiation. This was in regard to use of the building, colour schemes and the needs of the local residents. View more
Report Energy Savings through Boilers and Control - Betsi Cadwaladr... The Health Board identified inefficient and unreliable uses of energy at a 4,474m2 Community Hospital. These include heating systems, domestic hot water boilers, fiues, zone control valves and a building management system. View more
Report Saving through Tumble Dryer Replacements - Flintshire County... The Council's three Residential Homes had electric tumble dryers, for the simple reason that they were cheap to buy when the homes were being refurbished a few years ago. However, it was identified that the use of electric tumble dryers were not cheap to run. View more