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The government is setting its sights on unincorporated businesses that fraudulently took out Bounce Back Loans during the pandemic.

LGC explores what has caused the local audit backlog and what is being done about it It is no understatement to describe local audit as in crisis. Just

Agency responsible for Test and Trace criticised by NAO for “lack of adequate governance, oversight and control” exposing it to a “high level of risk”.

Just 12% of the audits for local government accounts were completed on time with warnings that this is “beginning to seriously undermine” the sector.

Starved of counter-fraud funding for a decade, local councils were left dangerously exposed to financial wrongdoing at the height of the pandemic, says new report.

Less than one in ten audits of local government 2020-21 accounts have been completed by the 30 September deadline, representing a significant