Audit
Local Transparency
i. The government has pledged greater transparency across the public sector through publishing data to strengthen accountability to citizens. Government has committed to publishing certain information on salaries, spending and contracts by January 2011.
ii. This agenda is set to grow and embrace other areas of information. It is an opportunity for local public service providers and the people and businesses that they serve, to better use public data and information as an asset to add value to public services or to help people and communities who need information and data to do things for themselves. It also offers opportunities to foster wider use of digitally based information and services: what some describe as a 21st century element in literacy.
iii. The purpose for authorities to publish public data is to enable greater transparency, greater engagement and greater efficiency by allowing inspection by residents, peer comparison and reuse of the data in applications and analysis.
iv. The transparency and making public data public agenda has a number of potential benefits that include:
AUDIT OF ACCOUNTS
Statement of account 2008-2009