Audit Commission rounds on grant aid report critics

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 21 September 2007

Steve Bundred, chief executive of the Audit Commission, has hit back at accusations that the public spending watchdog was wrong to claim, in its recent Hearts and Minds report, that there was no evidence of local authorities reducing grant aid budgets.

Third Sector Online reported on 13 September that Navca chief executive Kevin Curley had written to Bundred to dispute the report’s finding, arguing it had been based on data supplied by only nine councils. However, Bundred stood by the claim, insisting it was backed up by what councils told the...

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