Issue - meetings

To present an updated Work Plan for the Committee’s consideration.

The Committee considered an updated Work Plan.

To assist Members in reviewing the Work Plan, the report included details of specific areas of activity that could be included in the Plan.

Members noted that a number of changes had been made to the Work Plan since the previous meeting:

1.      Reports had been included for this meeting on:

§         customer and Local Government Ombudsman complaints; and

§         Breach of contract procedure rules.

2.      The Chairman’s annual report to Council had been included in the unallocated section of the Work Plan.

3.      The Business Continuity update had been withdrawn to enable consideration to be given to the content and frequency of future reports.

4.      A final draft of the anti-fraud and corruption policy had been carried forward to the January 2012 agenda.

5.      the process for the production of the Annual Governance Statement for 2011-12 would be reported to the January 2012 meeting.

Members noted that a report would be brought back on how the new Whistleblowing Policy was working.

A paper was circulated at the meeting with details of specific areas of audit and governance work which, it was suggested, individual Members of the Committee could become involved with as a means of developing specialist in-depth knowledge and expertise.

RESOLVED

That

(1)   the Work Plan, and the changes made to it since the last meeting, be noted;

(2)   the Chairman’s annual report to Council be considered at the Committee’s meeting in September 2012;

(3)   it be noted that the Work Plan will be resubmitted to the Committee periodically for further development and approval; and

(4)   individual Members of the Committee let the Officers know which areas of audit and governance work they would wish to become more involved with, prioritising their interests where appropriate.