Issue - meetings

To provide the Committee with an opinion on the overall adequacy and effectiveness of the Council’s control environment for 2010/11.

The Committee considered Internal Audit’s annual report for 2010/11.

The primary purpose of the report was to provide an opinion on the overall adequacy and effectiveness of the Council’s control environment which included risk managementprocesses, control systems, accounting records and governance arrangements.

In the opinion of the Head of Internal Audit and Compliance, the Council had established adequate and effective risk management, control and governance processes; any weaknesses identified during the audit had been, or were being, addressed.

At the Audit and Governance Committee meeting on the 25^th January 2011, it was agreed that Internal Audit would carry out a review of the savings achieved through redundancy. The results of this review were included as Annex A to the report.

In considering the specific areas and functions referred to in Appendix A to the report, Members noted that in some cases, whilst the findings of audit had been included there was no reference to the recommendations for remedial action.

Members also considered whether the Audit and Governance Committee should submit an annual report to Council.

RESOLVED

That

(1)   the Internal Audit annual report for 2010/11 be noted;

(2)   for the future, where audits have been undertaken of specific areas of work, the report include the agreed recommendations for remedial action, and in cases where significant progress has not been made in implementing recommendations, this be reported to the Committee; and

(3)   with effect from the next municipal year, the Audit and Governance Committee submit an annual report to Council.