Issue - meetings

To note the content of the report.

The Internal Audit Manager gave a summary of the report, which detailed the work undertaken during the 2020/21 financial year and provided details on the high risk and priority issues which could impact on the effectiveness of the internal control environment, risk management and governance arrangements across the Council. She provided an overview of work done in the year as detailed in Paragraph 1.4 of the report. She referred to Paragraph 2.3 of her report in her opinion that overall, the Council’s systems for control, risk and governance were generally adequate with some improvements required. She said her opinion had been supported through the risk management framework.

The Internal Audit Manager said that seven high priority findings had been identified in reports but that she was not unduly concerned at this stage, the key indicator will be whether good progress is made in implementation of the recommendations. She said that ‘moderate assurance’ had been the overall opinion in respect of the Key Financial systems and that implementation of audit recommendations had been good.

In response to a question from Councillor Khan about the outstanding recommendation from the Equality and Diversity report, the Internal Audit Manager said that this related to ensuring that all service plans included equality objectives from September 2021.

RESOLVED that GAP Committee note the contents of this report.