Governance, risks & compliance

Government and public sector organisations in the UK face the challenge of improving service delivery whilst demonstrating real value for money and efficiency through performance improvement.

The introduction of new ways of working to help achieve this has resulted in a need for good business and project governance, linked to better use of risk management techniques, and enabling internal control measures to help provide a better service to customers through modern channels of delivery.

PricewaterhouseCoopers uses its broad skills and experience to help our clients integrate and embed governance, risk and control activities throughout their organisation, from policy to operational levels. Our methodology is an integrated and end-to-end approach that takes full account of the agenda for change.

Potential issues

• Improving the use of risk management in service delivery as well as in programme management
• Improving delivery and reducing costs
• Enhancing Board effectiveness
• In some organisations, the adoption of private sector best practice
• The need for accountable officers to sign the Statement on Internal Control

PwC services

• Advising on governance structures and risk appetite
• Helping clients to embed robust risk management into organisation, process and technology
• Advising on reducing fraud and error by improving controls
• Helping reassure accounting officers that the Statement on Internal Control is based on accurate and reliable management information
• Advising on improving performance by reducing costs and increasing efficiency
• Helping organisations predict and manage business risk in an overall framework of control