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Head Start: Comprehensive Approach to Identifying and Addressing Risks Could Help Prevent Grantee Financial Management Weaknesses
 

This Government Accounting Office (GAO) report cites ACF for not developing a comprehensive risk assessment to identify weaknesses in Head Start that could limit the program's ability to achieve its objectives. Grantees and delegate agencies will find this report helpful in identifying weaknesses in their programs. ACF has no process in place to ensure that on-site reviews are conducted in accordance with the framework it designed to assess grantee compliance with program and financial management requirements. Moreover, financial reports and audits are not effectively used in day-to-day monitoring activities to identify high-risk grantees and resolve their problems.

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Head Start: Comprehensive Approach to Identifying and Addressing Risks Could Help Prevent Grantee Financial Management Weaknesses

Summary

While ACF uses many processes to collect and analyze information on Head Start grantees, it has not designed its processes and integrated this information to consistently identify Head Start grantees’ financial management weaknesses. For example, ACF has not developed a comprehensive risk assessment to identify weaknesses that could limit the program’s ability to achieve its objectives. More>> [PDF, 620KB]

 

Head Start: Comprehensive Approach to Identifying and Addressing Risks Could Help Prevent Grantee Financial Management Weaknesses. General Accountability Office/U.S. Congress. 2005. English. [PDF, 620KB].


Last Updated: November 10, 2008