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Performance audit reports
A list of the reports produced as part of the Office's scheduled work programme. Performance audits examine matters of efficiency and effectiveness, waste, probity, compliance with statutory obligations, financial prudence, or any combination of these.
- Local authorities: Planning to meet the forecast demand for drinking water
- February 2010: We carried out a performance audit of eight local authorities to help us form a view about how well prepared the country is to meet the likely future demand for drinking water...
- Effectiveness of arrangements to check the standard of services provided by rest homes
- December 2009: The Ministry is actively trying to address shortcomings in the effectiveness of rest home auditing and certification arrangements. However, more work remains to be done and it is still too early to tell whether the efforts to make the current arrangements work as intended will make a difference or whether certification is fundamentally unable to do what the legislation envisaged...
- Ministry of Justice: Supporting the management of court workloads
- December 2009: We audited the effectiveness and efficiency of the Ministry's work to help District Courts and the High Court deal with their increasing workloads. Although we are pleased with what our audit found, the courts are likely to remain under considerable pressure for the foreseeable future...
- Ministry of Education: Managing support for students with high special educational needs
- October 2009: We carried out a performance audit to assess how well the Ministry of Education manages four initiatives set up to support school-age students that it assesses as having the highest level of intellectual, sensory, or physical disabilities, speech language diffi culties, or behavioural needs...
- Ministry of Social Development: Changes to the case management of sickness and invalids' beneficiaries
- October 2009: Two years ago, the Ministry made changes designed to help sickness and invalids' beneficiaries prepare for, make the transition to, and stay in work. We looked at how well the changes were operating and whether they were starting to have the intended effect...
- New Zealand Defence Force: Progress with the Defence Sustainability Initiative
- September 2009: The Defence Sustainability Initiative was NZDF's 10-year programme to use more than $4 billion in extra funding, to improve the military and corporate capability of our defence forces. We looked at the progress NZDF made during the Initiative’s first three years...
- Inland Revenue Department: Managing tax debt
- June 2009: Although most taxpayers pay their tax on time, the Inland Revenue Department acknowledges that tax debt is growing at a rate that is outpacing its capacity to deal with it...
- How government departments monitor Crown entities
- June 2009: This report describes how well three government departments – the Department of Internal Affairs, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, and the Ministry of Economic Development – support Ministers in meeting their responsibilities for selected autonomous Crown entities, Crown agents, and independent Crown entities...
- Workforce planning in Crown Research Institutes
- May 2009: We carried out a performance audit of the workforce planning within the Crown Research Institutes (CRIs). We focused on how CRIs identify their workforce needs, establish initiatives to address their needs, and monitor and evaluate those initiatives...
- Performance audits from 2007: Follow-up report
- March 2009: This report to Parliament sets out the actions taken in response to the findings of 14 performance audits...
- Department of Corrections: Managing offenders on parole
- February 2009: We carried out a performance audit to examine how effectively the Department of Corrections (the Department) manages offenders on parole. This audit has led to 20 recommendations...
- Housing New Zealand Corporation: Maintenance of state housing
- December 2008: We carried out a performance audit to provide Parliament with assurance about the effectiveness of the systems and processes Housing New Zealand Corporation uses to maintain state housing...
- Ministry of Health: Monitoring the progress of the Primary Health Care Strategy
- October 2008: We audited how the Ministry of Health has monitored progress toward the Primary Health Care Strategy’s goals. Overall, the Ministry needs to review its measures to ensure that it can assess progress toward all of the goals in the Strategy’s vision statement...
- Ministry of Education: Supporting professional development for teachers
- August 2008: We carried out a performance audit that looked at the Ministry of Education's arrangements to support the professional development of primary and secondary school teachers after they have graduated from a teacher education programme...
- Maintaining and renewing the rail network
- July 2008: We carried out a performance audit to provide assurance about the effectiveness of Ontrack’s systems for maintaining and renewing the rail network...
- Reporting the progress of defence acquisition projects
- June 2008: An interim report setting out a high-level summary of cost and time frame changes for 10 defence projects...
- Ministry of Education: Monitoring and supporting school boards of trustees
- June 2008: Overall, the Ministry provides some useful training and general support for all boards. It also has good systems for supporting boards that are clearly at risk of poor performance. We have made nine recommendations...
- The Accident Compensation Corporation's leadership in the implementation of the national falls prevention strategy
- June 2008: The Accident Compensation Corporation has carried out useful work leading the strategy, but progress has been uneven. We identified two matters for ACC's immediate attention - its leadership mandate and the evaluation framework...
- Ministry of Social Development: Preventing, detecting, and investigating benefit fraud
- June 2008: Overall, the Ministry has good systems, policies, and procedures for preventing, detecting, and investigating benefit fraud. We have made eight recommendations...
- Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation: Governance and management of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund
- May 2008: We carried out a performance audit of the Guardians to provide independent assurance to Parliament about whether the Superannuation Fund is being prudently governed and managed...