Carrying out our responsibilities in 2007/08

Certificate of Compliance

The Commissioners received returns from 109 departments and agencies.

Visits

Meetings – usually in the form of site visits – were held with nearly all organisations provisionally assessed as high risk.

Adjustments

As a result of these meetings the provisional risk rating was adjusted in eight cases

Final Risk Ratings

This table shows the final risk rating, as an actual and as a percentage of the total, in read more

Change

A number of organisations are undergoing significant organisational change and this may explain to some degree why the reduction of risk is not more pronounced.

Good practice

We found a number of examples of good practice including: read more

Weaknesses

Common weaknesses included:

Misunderstandings

In a number of cases we have found that there is a simple lack of understanding of the recruitment principle and/or the misuse of terminology.

Assistance

To try to ensure that risk levels in departments and agencies remain as low as possible we have:

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