JAO marks Earth Day 2025

JAO marks Earth Day 2025

The Jersey Audit Office is pleased to recognise and celebrate Earth Day 2025.  Marking its 55th Anniversary, this year’s World Earth Day theme – ‘Our Power, Our Planet’ – encapsulates the responsibilities and opportunities we all have to make a difference.

The JAO takes those responsibilities and opportunities seriously, both in making sure the Office operates in line with our Corporate Social Responsibility Policy (Jersey-Audit-Office-Strategy-2025-2028.pdf) and also in how we use audit to highlight how public services can contribute to the wider goals of sustainable wellbeing.

In October 2024 we organised a workshop entitled ‘Embedding Long Term Sustainability into Decision Making’. Good practice ideas shared and discussed on the day helped attendees to understand how they can integrate principles of sustainability into their everyday operations.
Is sustainable wellbeing a ‘nice to have’ or a ‘must have’? | Jersey Audit Office

In 2025, as the Jersey Audit Office marks its 20th anniversary, we have enhanced the good practice ‘checklist’ we provide each year to the States of Jersey and associated entities to support them in improving transparency and excellence in their annual reports to the public. Changes include a sharper focus on helping organisations to identify, assess and communicate the work they do to meet sustainable wellbeing ambitions, including as set out in the ‘Future Jersey’ vision and the aligned Jersey Performance Framework. As part of #JAO20 annual reports will be evaluated against this enhanced checklist and awards given in recognition of best practice.

Annual Report Self-Assessment Tool | Jersey Audit Office

Jersey Performance Framework | Jersey Audit Office