Submission on the Local Government (Water Services) Bill
13 March 2025: We provided a submission to the Finance and Expenditure Committee on the Local Government (Water Services) Bill.
Regulating vehicle safety inspections
4 March 2025: We looked at NZTA’s processes for appointing and monitoring vehicle inspectors and inspecting organisations, how it responds to non-compliance, and how it measures and reports on the performance of these activities.
Observations from our audits of councils’ 2024-34 long-term plans
20 February 2025: This report describes the audit results and trends from the 58 long-term plans that councils adopted between June and October 2024.
Our insights into five health regulatory authorities
19 February 2025: There are 18 authorities in New Zealand that regulate a workforce of nearly 140,000 registered health practitioners. In this report we highlight the role of responsible authorities and their contribution to the wider health sector.
Results of the 2023 school audits
14 February 2025: This detailed information sets out the results of the school audits for 2023. We have provided this information, and a list of recommendations, to the Secretary for Education.
Monitoring integrity in public organisations
21 January 2025: This guide is designed to help you think about how to approach monitoring organisational integrity – how to do it effectively and in a way that adds value to your organisation. It is intended to complement work that you might already be doing as part of your strategy to improve organisational integrity.
Responses to our recommendations about Whānau Ora and whānau-centred approaches
19 December 2024: We asked four organisations for an update on their response to recommendations we made in 2023 about Whānau Ora and whānau-centred approaches.
Review of Operation Respect’s Strategy and Plan
17 December 2024: We have carried out an audit of the new strategy that NZDF has developed for Operation Respect, and the associated implementation plan, to assess whether NZDF is now better positioned to meet the programme’s objectives. We summarise our findings in this letter.
Putting integrity at the core of how public organisations operate
12 December 2024: This integrity framework is intended to support senior leaders and those in governance roles in upholding the integrity of New Zealand’s public sector and navigating the ethical challenges that the public sector faces.
Our audit of the Government’s financial statements and our Controller function
21 November 2024: This report describes the results of our audit of the Financial Statements of the Government of New Zealand (the Government’s financial statements). It also reports on the findings from our Controller work (where we monitor government spending to check whether it is in line with parliamentary authority).
