PSAA news

We have recently published the number of audit opinions delivered up to 31 January 2025 on our website. Data for previous months can be viewed on our monthly audit opinion data page.

PSAA is pleased to announce the appointment from 1 February of Alan Edwards, Irene Asare and Liz Murrall as Directors on the PSAA Board and of Adrian Lythgo as independent member on the Audit Committee. Current directors Fraser McKinlay and Marta Phillips are stepping down from the Board on 28 February and 31 March respectively. […]

On 18 December MHCLG launched a consultation on Local audit reform: a strategy for overhauling the local audit system in England. We welcomed the strategy to develop a more cohesive system geared to the sector’s needs that provides assurance over the use of public money. The strategy commits to a series of measures to fix […]

We have recently published the number of audit opinions delivered up to 31 December 2024 on our website. Data for previous months can be viewed on our monthly audit opinion data page.

Auditors have reported issuing 361 disclaimed opinions due to the backstop as of 13 December 2024 for the years up to 2022/23. The 40 non-standard opinions in the table below include 8 disclaimed opinions that auditors have not attributed to the backstop. There are a further 77 opinions that remain outstanding for the years 2018/19 […]

PSAA welcomes MHCLG’s local audit reform strategy, which follows on from Monday’s announcement of the intention to create a new local audit body. We are strong advocates of overhauling the local audit system. Despite sustained and determined effort by system partners the current arrangements have not enabled resolution of the issues. This has resulted in […]

PSAA welcomes today’s announcement by the Government (refer to page 103) on further action it intends to take to address the local audit crisis as a part of the promised overhaul, by establishing a new body for local audit. We have previously stated our strong support for the Government’s commitment to ‘overhaul the local audit […]

We have recently published the number of audit opinions delivered up to 30 November 2024 on our website. Data for previous months can be viewed on our monthly audit opinion data page. We will publish a further update by the 19 December once the opinion data for the audits up to 2022/23 is available, following […]

We will publish data on audit opinion delivery on a monthly basis for the audits from 2018/19 onwards until all opinions for a year are delivered. We have recently published the number of audit opinions delivered up to 31 October 2024 on our website. Data for previous months can be viewed on our monthly audit […]

PSAA has published the 2024/25 audit fee scale following consultation. Information on the fee scale and consultation can be found on our website. We welcome the feedback we received to our consultation and thank all those who took the time to provide their views. We will continue to feed the concerns raised by bodies into […]