Guidance
JPAG Joint Panel on Accountability and Governance Practitioners’ Guide 2022/23
JPAG Joint Panel on Accountability and Governance Practitioners’ Guide 2021/22
JPAG Practitioners’ Guide changes for 2021/22
DCLG Transparency code for smaller authorities
NAO Local authority accounts - A guide to your rights
SAAA Complaints policy and procedure
CIPFA Guidance for setting up an independent auditor panel
Reports
Report on the results of auditors' work 2020-21 - March 2022
Report on the results of auditors' work 2019-20 - March 2021
Report on the results of auditors' work 2018-19 - March 2020
Report on the results of auditors' work 2017-18 - March 2019
Communications
Chairman's Communication - December 2021
SAAA is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed its procurement process for the next 5-year smaller authorities audit contracts from 2022-23 and has appointed 4 audit firms: PKF Littlejohn, Mazars, Moore and BDO.
Individual authorities will be notified of their next auditor appointments after the 2021-22 returns have been submitted under the current contract which remains in place.
The first AGAR submissions under the new contract will not be due until after 31st March 2023.
Chairman's Communication - August 2021
MHCLG letter on remote meetings
