Issue - meetings

The Shared Internal Audit Services (SIAS) submitted a report detailing the proposed Internal Audit Plan for 2017/18.  The SIAS Officer provided a summary of the report including recent changes to secure compliance with the Public Sector Internal Audit Standards.

The SIAS Officer referred to the risks regarding the delivery of the Authority’s objectives regarding local and national horizon scanning, as detailed on page 68 of the report submitted.  Members were reminded that this item had been reported to the Section 151 Officer and the Leadership Team prior to being submitted to the Audit and Governance Committee.

Members were advised that any in year changes to the SIAS 2017/18 Audit Plan would be reported to the Performance, Audit and Governance Committee which would likely cover the current work of Audit and Governance Committee).  The SIAS Officer referred the Committee to Appendix B for the Audit Plan Items (April 2017 to March 2018) where start dates had been agreed with management.

The SIAS Officer referred in detail, to the estimated percentage allocation of the total number of purchased audit days in 2017/18.  He referred to the sharing of good practice and invoice payment procedures.  He also referred to risk management and the levels of Member involvement.

The Committee approved the proposed Internal Audit Plan for 2017/18.

RESOLVED – that the Internal Audit Plan for 2017/18 be approved.