Issue - meetings

The Shared Internal Audit Service submitted a report on the adequacy and effectiveness of the Council’s control environment.  The report detailed the outcomes of the self-assessment against the Public Sector Internal Audit Standards (PSIAS) incorporating the requirements of the Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme (QAIP) and summarised the audit work that informed the option.  The report detailed SIAS’s performance in respect of delivery the Council’s Audit Plan and presented the 2019/20 Audit Charter.

The SIAS Officer provided a summary of the report and said that all targets had been met in 2018/19.  He also referred to the Internal Audit Charter and the Audit Planning Arrangements.

It was proposed by Councillor A Ward-Booth and seconded by Councillor A Alder that the recommendations as detailed be approved.  After being to the meeting and a vote taken, the motion was declared CARRIED.

RESOLVED – that (A) the Annual Assurance Statement and Internal Audit Annual Report, be noted;

(B)   the results of the self-assessment required by the Public Sector Internal Audit Standards (PSIAS) and the Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme (QAIP), be noted;

(C)   the SIAS Charter be accepted; and

(D)   the Head of Strategic Finance and Property confirmed that the scope and resources for the internal audit were not subjected to inappropriate limitations in 2018/19.