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Audits
From Commission for Public Service Appointments (CPSA)
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From Commission for Public Service Appointments (CPSA)
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We carry out several audits a year into the recruitment and selection activities of licence-holders. Audits are carried out to ensure that recruitment policies and processes support best practice, in line with the Code of Practice.
Audits play an important role in:
We may audit one or more specific licence-holders, or on a thematic basis, across a number of public bodies. We publish our findings in an audit report, which is available to the public.
If we decide to audit your organisation, we will tell you in advance. This will give you time to prepare, so the audit will cause minimum disruption.
During the audit, we will check for compliance with the principles and standards of the Code of Practice and the terms and conditions of your recruitment licence.
The audit may be a desk-based study of policies, procedures and documents, or we may visit you on site to examine your recruitment files. We will ask to meet staff involved in recruitment and selection.
An audit will focus on elements of a recruitment process, including:
When we complete our audit, we will discuss our findings with you before drafting a final report. This will give you an opportunity to comment before our report is approved. If we find breaches of the Code of Practice, our report will recommend, or give you directions for, appropriate action. Our final audit report will be made available online.
An account of all our audit activity is also included in our annual report.