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The Shared Internal Audit Manager introduced the report, advising Members that it was the first progress report for 2022/2023. He said that there had so far been no changes to the audit plan. He listed the reports key points, and referred to the two high priority outstanding items as detailed in Appendix B. He said that an update would be circulated by email to Members in the next few days. 

The Chairman thanked the Shared Internal Audit Manager for his report. He said that the council was broadly where it should be for the time of year, and asked if technology was being used to streamline processes.  The Shared Internal Audit Manager said that data analytics had been embedded into their work, but were best used on audits which had a large data set. He said that they were currently a few audits behind the work programme due to recruitment/ retention challenges, which was an issue for many audit services. 

The Chairman said that it was good that there were no other high/critical actions outstanding. The Shared Internal Audit Manager said that there was work in progress with regards to cyber security, for which management response had just been received. He said that this would therefore be circulated to Members shortly.

It was moved by Councillor Fernando and seconded by Councillor Bell that the recommendations, as detailed, be approved. After being put to the meeting and a vote taken, the motion was declared carried. 

RESOLVED – that (A) the Internal Audit Progress Report be noted;

(B) that the status of the critical and high priority recommendations be noted.