2021 Report Volume 1

Our spring 2021 Report includes the results of 8 performance audits, 20 follow-up audits, and 66 annual integrated audits. Appendix 1 of the Report lists the agencies audited, and those with significant findings included in this Report.

Key chapters in this Report include topics such as: Evaluating the Early Learning Intensive Support Program; Monitoring Success in Readying Students for Learning in the Primary Grades When Exiting Kindergarten; Using Critical Health Incidents to Improve Patient Safety; Implementing Strategies to Reduce Short-Term Remand in Saskatoon and Surrounding Area; Regulating Recreational Cannabis; Providing Timely Access to Mental Health and Addiction Services in Prince Albert and Surrounding Area; Regulating Drainage.

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  Materials from the Release of the Report

  • News Release - 2021 Report - Volume 1: Critical Incidents
  • News Release - 2021 Report - Volume 1: Early Learners
  • News Release - 2021 Report - Volume 1: Backgrounder for News Release
  • Compilation of Main Points

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  (For selective viewing please click on an individual chapter from the list below)

  Overview by the Provincial Auditor

  Judy Ferguson's Overview 2021 Report—Volume 1

  Annual Integrated and Information Technology Audits

    1   Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board

    2   School Divisions

    3   Summary of Implemented Recommendations

   

  Performance Audits

    4   Corrections, Policing and Public Safety—Providing Provincial Disaster Assistance

    5   Education—Evaluating the Early Learning Intensive Support Program

    6   Health—Using Critical Incident Reporting to Improve Patient Safety

    7   Highways—Selecting Contractors for Roadworks

    8   Justice AG and CPP —Implementing Strategies to Reduce Short-Term Remand in Saskatoon and Area

    9   Office of Residential Tenancies—Adjudicating Tenancy Disputes 

   10  Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority—Regulating Recreational Cannabis

   11  Saskatoon School Division No. 13—Monitoring Success in Readying Students for Learning in the Primary Grades When Exiting Kindergarten

   

  Audit Follow Up Audits

   12  Education—Capital Asset Planning for Schools

   13  eHealth Saskatchewan-Mitigating Vendor Influence and Related Conflicts of Interest

   14  Energy and Resources-Regulating Oil, Gas and Pipeline Incidents

   15  Government Relations—Providing Safe Drinking Water in Northern Settlements

   16  Government Relations—Recommending Infrastructure Projects for Funding

   17  Health—Providing Special Needs Equipment for Persons with Disabilities

   18  Highways-Enforcing Vehicle Weight and Dimension Requirements

   19  Immigration and Career Training--Coordinating English-Language Programs

   20  Justice and Attorney General and Corrections, Policing and Public Safety—Leading the Community Safety and Well-Being Initiative

   21  Northlands College—Purchasing Goods and Services

   22  Saskatchewan Health Authority—Providing Timely Access to Mental Health and Addictions Services in Prince Albert and Surrounding Areas

   23  Saskatchewan Health Authority—Triaging Emergency Department Patients in Saskatoon Hospitals

   24  Saskatchewan Housing Corporation--Providing Adequate Social Housing to Eligible Clients

   25  SLGA-Regulating Commercial Permittees’ On-Table Sale of Liquor

   26  SaskBuilds and Procurement—Securing the Data Centre

   27  SaskBuilds and Procurement—Web Application Security Requirements

   28  Social Services—Placing Minister’s Wards in Permanent Homes

   29  Social Services-Protecting Children-in-Care Information in the Linkin System

   30  St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Separate School Division No. 20—Promoting Good Student Health and Physical Fitness

   31  Water Security Agency—Regulating Drainage

   

  Appendices

  1 -  Agencies Subject to Examination Under The Provincial Auditor Act and Status of Audits

  2 - Report on the Financial Statements of Agencies Audited by Appointed Auditors

  3 - Samples of Opinions We Form on Ministries, Crown Agencies, and Crown-Controlled Corporations

   

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