Capital Digest

The Health and Human Services Department should provide more training and technical assistance to Head Start grantees to correct accounting and management "deficiencies,'' a new report by the agency's Inspector General recommends.

The report is based on a review of 674 audits of 569 grantees and includes a summary of more than 1,700 audit findings completed between September 1990 and December 1991.

According to the report, about 40 percent of the grantees did not have complete and timely accounting or budget-control procedures, 44 percent did not fully comply with federal regulations or meet standards for federal financial reports and independent audits, and 24...