- Committee Meetings
We support the work of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. Their next meeting is on Tuesday, May 12 at 9 a.m. with Assisted Living and Social Services to discuss the ministry’s annual report and the nine outstanding recommendations from our office:
In our November 2024 report on Processes to Assess and Manage the Condition of Affordable Housing, we recommended that the department:
- maintain facility condition information,
- improve oversight processes, and
- implement performance measures.
In our February 2023 report on Seniors in Long-term Care, we made two new recommendations which speak to implementing a system to ensure resident care is not compromised by insufficient staffing and improving public reporting on expected results.
In our February 2023 report on COVID-19 in Continuing Care Facilities, one of the recommendations, which relates to the development of a continuing care staffing strategy, has since been taken on by this department.
The remaining recommendations have been repeated from previous audit work:
In our Annual Summary of Ministry Audit Work released in November 2024, we repeated a 2014 recommendation that the department improve user access controls for all its information systems.
In our March 2024 report on Income Support for Albertans, we repeated a 2019 recommendation that the department improve performance management processes.
In our March 2022 report on Control Systems at the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee, we repeated a 2013 recommendation to improve and follow policies and procedures.
You can watch the meeting at Assembly Online.
Understanding the roles of the Auditor General and PAC
The Auditor General works as a trusted advisor to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) in its review of government spending. The committee, made up of government and Official Opposition MLAs, uses our reports to examine how government has accounted for and used public funds, and how it is acting on our recommendations.The value of our work is fully realized when our recommendations are acted on. Visit our website to learn more about our recommendations to government and our work in progress.
The Office of the Auditor General is independent (nonpartisan) of government and those it audits. Its work is mandated in legislation, and is not negotiated under contract, ensuring its independence of what it audits and how it reports the results of its work. This ensures the work is objective. The Office of the Auditor General is a credible and trusted source of information on government spending and activities.