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On
1 December 2004, the National Audit Office (NAO) published a report
(Reducing Crime: the Home Office working with Crime and
Disorder Reduction Partnerships; Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General
HC 16 2004-2005). The report finds that
the Home Office is funding a diverse array of crime reduction projects, many of which are innovative and contributing towards reductions in reported levels of crime.
There is scope, however, for increased review of projects so that more is known about why the successful ones work and why the unsuccessful ones do not.
Resources could also be used more effectively and more significant reductions in crime achieved if the burden upon Partnerships of having to administer complex funding grant conditions were minimised.
The full report can be viewed on the NAO website