Public Sector Audit Appointments (PSAA) is specified by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government as the appointing person for principal local government, including police bodies.
The role of the appointing person is to lead the development, implementation and management of a collective scheme for the appointment of local auditors and set associated scale fees. Local government bodies can choose either to organise their own processes to make their auditor appointment or they can join the collective scheme provided by PSAA as the appointing person.
For audits of the accounts from 2018/19, PSAA is responsible for appointing an auditor for the five-year appointing period to 2022/23 to relevant principal authorities that choose to opt into its national scheme.
We have produced an overview of the appointing person scheme, outlining the nature and scope of the appointing person’s responsibilities and explaining why PSAA was well suited to take on this role and our arrangements to ensure that the role delivers significant, tangible benefits for the local bodies which opt in.
To find out how to become an opted-in authority and to see the lists of authorities that have already opted in and those that are making local arrangements, click here.
The procurement of audit services for opted-in authorities was a key component of developing the appointing person arrangements. To find out more about the outcome of our procurement, click here.
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