Issue - meetings

The Shared Internal Audit Service (SIAS) submitted a report which reviewed the first full year of operation.  The report highlighted key areas of success in the year, the performance of the partnership and looked ahead in terms of future developments to provide core assurances in the provision of resilience, efficiency, access to expertise, high standards of customer service and career opportunities for staff.

The issue of the number of “full assurance” audits was considered.  The Director of Finance and Support Services explained that given our risk based approach to considering audit topics, there was a  possible disadvantages of receiving a “full assurance” from an audit viewpoint, in that this could show that we are not considering the correct topics.

The Committee welcomed the report.

RESOLVED – that the report be received.