Agenda/Speakers:

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

MINUTES

  • To confirm as a record the minutes of the Audit Committee Meeting held on 7 July 2020 

NOTICE OF ANY OTHER BUSINESS 

  • Items of other business notified under Council Procedure Rule 30 to be announced, together with special circumstances that justify their consideration as a matter of urgency. The Chairman to rule on the admission of such items.

DECLARATION OF INTERESTS 

  • To receive any declarations of interest 

ANNUAL REVIEW OF RISK MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS 

  • This report summarises the Council’s risk management arrangements and includes revised Risk Registers for each service.

SIA S INTERNAL AUDIT PROGRESS REPORT 

  • Progress made by the Shared internal Audit Service (SIAS) in delivering the Councils annual audit plan for 2020/21 as at 11 September 2020

  • Proposed amendments to the approved 2020/21 Annual Audit Plan.

  • Implementation status of all previously agreed audit recommendations from 2016/17 onwards

  • An update on performance management information as at 11 September 2020

DRAFT STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS 

  • To receive a presentation. 

  • The Draft Statement of Accounts can be accedded using the link below.

  • Statements of Accounts

FINANCIAL AND BUDGETARY RISKS 

  • This report advises the Committee on the latest position in respect of the evaluation of financial risks facing the Council for discussion and any recommendations/ comments they wish to make.

COMMITTEE'S WORK PROGRAMME 

  • To review and make necessary changes to the Audit Committee's Work programme 

ANY OTHER BUSINESS 

EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC 

  •   If any confidential business is approved under item 3, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional item(s) and a resolution to be passed in the following terms

  •   “that under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under the respective paragraphs of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act”.