15 May 2025: In July 2024, concerns were raised with us about contract management, particularly the contracting decisions for 2024/25. These services are critical for children and their families, involve significant public spending, and managing the contracts for them poorly could undermine public trust. Given this, we decided to inquire into the concerns that had been raised.
13 May 2025: We wanted to understand how Auckland Transport makes sure that it is contributing to reliable and safe public transport services and how well it reports on, and communicates about, its performance.
12 May 2025: Our study of established community-government partnerships identifies ways for organisations to strengthen their accountability practices when they work together to achieve shared goals.
23 April 2025: Our draft annual plan outlines our proposed programme of work for 2025/26, which includes performance audits, special studies, regular reports and updates, and good practice guidance. It considers issues facing the public sector and how we can best use our role to influence positive change.
17 April 2025: Current performance information often highlights successes, achievements, and what went well, but usually gives less attention to things that did not go as well or as planned.
10 April 2025: We wanted to provide assurance about whether public organisations were well positioned to meet their legal and contractual commitments to fulfil Treaty settlements as intended. We also wanted to provide assurance about how well they understood any risks associated with meeting their commitments.
7 April 2025: The one instance of unappropriated expenditure in the first six months of 2024/25 relates to a $3.2 billion increase in the Crown liability for veterans’ support. Also, having seen some problems with statements setting the scope for government spending, we will carry out a comprehensive review during 2025.
3 April 2025: We wanted to know how effective government arrangements to reduce child poverty are. We looked at what the government is doing to reduce child poverty and mitigate the impacts of socio-economic disadvantage.
1 April 2025: We recently looked at selected public organisations to see how well they were governing their cyber security risks. We found that although governors are taking cyber security seriously, they have more work to do to support their organisations to reduce the gap between the amount of cyber security risk they are comfortable with and the amount of risk they currently face.
13 March 2025: We provided a submission to the Finance and Expenditure Committee on the Local Government (Water Services) Bill.
Oranga Tamariki: Inquiry into procurement and contract management
