Issue - meetings

To provide the Committee with an opinion on the overall adequacy and effectiveness of the Council’s control environment for 2011/12.

The Committee considered the Internal Audit Report for 2011/12.

The primary purpose of the report was to provide an opinion on the adequacy and effectiveness of the Council’s internal control environment, which included consideration of any significant risk or governance issues and control failures that had been identified.

A number of significant issues had been reported by Internal Audit during the course of 2011/12 and these were being addressed and monitored. There were no outstanding significant control issues identified through the work of Internal Audit that required disclosure in the Council’s 2011/12 Annual Governance Statement.

In the opinion of Internal Audit, the Council had established a satisfactory framework of risk management, control and governance. This provided adequate assurance over the Council’s control environment, with control weaknesses identified during audits and/or by management addressed or being addressed.

Members commented that the definitions within the action plan should be made more precise and that there should be a clear indication of whether action had been taken within the agreed timetable.

RESOLVED

That

(1)   the contents of the Internal Audit Annual Report for 2011/12 be noted; and

(2)   the action plan be amended to include a performance indicator on whether each action has been taken within the agreed timetable, and further consideration be given to the definitions within the plan.