Dossett: the future of public audit at a crossroads

With listed entity audit under scrutiny, public sector audit may seem to have gone below the radar, but there are issues from declining fees to concerns about the scope and effectiveness. As the Kingman review has raised the stakes for corporate audit,so will it reverberate across all areas of audit, says Paul Dossett, head of local government, Grant Thornton UK LLP

I have worked in public audit for 32 years and started my career in the era of rate capping and illegal budgets, the era of Ken Livingstone and the Greater London Council, and militant tendency. Just after I qualified there was Westminster Council and the ‘homes for votes’ scandal.

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