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  1. Contract Monitoring Data Pack: Quarter 3 for 2025/26

    26 February 2026

    PSAA has published its Contract Monitoring Data Pack: Quarter 3 for 2025/26. We produce quarterly reports on our contracted firms, building up information as the year progresses. The data pack covers audit opinions, approved fee variations and electors’ objections up to 31 December 2025.  21 audit opinions are outstanding for audits up to 2023/24, which has reduced by 28 since the 28 February 2025 backstop date, as published on our website.  Contract monitoring data packs for previous quarters are […]

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  4. February 2026 update

    5 February 2026

    This edition of our quarterly e-bulletin includes planning for change, an update on local audit reform including recruitment for the Local Audit Office Chair, the publication of our 2025/26 audit fee scale, and a summary of local audit news from elsewhere. We hope you continue to find this useful, and we welcome your thoughts on […]

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  8. MHCLG’s statement on rebuilding assurance and ongoing reforms

    8 December 2025

    MHCLG issued a Written Ministerial Statement on 2 December outlining its intention to speed up the process of rebuilding assurance at local bodies as part of its wider local audit reform strategy, and has written to all audit firms and local bodies underlining the need for everyone to work together to accelerate progress. The English […]

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