Issue - meetings

To consider the Internal Audit Annual Report and Opinion 2018-19.

The Internal Audit Manager gave a summary of the report, which advised on the work carried out by Internal Audit during 2018/19 and provided an overall opinion on the Council’s control environment for 2018/19. The report also showed the state of compliance with the Public Sector Internal Audit Standards (PSIAS) which came into effect on 01 April 2013 and was revised and updated from 01 April 2017.

In response to a Member question, officers confirmed Internal Audit was appropriately resourced to deal with the demands upon the department. Any changes for resourcing were put through the Corporate Management Team (CMT), and there was no reason to believe a large-scale project would require the secondment of members of the team.

In response to a Member question, the Internal Audit Manager said the topic of Corporate Equality and Diversity had been picked up by CMT and there was now an officer responsible for overseeing this.