Issue - meetings

Report of the Executive Manager – Finance and Corporate Services.

Mr Ali, Senior Manager at RSM the Council’s Internal Auditor’s, presented the Internal Audit Annual Report which summarises the work undertaken during the course of 2019/20 and the management actions arising from the audits. Mr Ali referred to the appended RSM report and highlighted the completion of the Internal Audit Plan. Mr Ali provided an annual opinion, which concluded that the Council has an adequate and effective framework for risk management, governance and internal controls.

As reported previously in the quarterly progress reports, Mr Ali advised the Group that of the 15 audits, 13 resulted in a green ‘substantial assurance’ rating and two resulting in amber ‘reasonable assurance’ rating, Building Control and Cyber Risk Management. In addition, a total of 40 management actions were identified, including 6 ‘medium priority’ and 34 ‘low priority’ where management actions had been agreed in all cases. A further two advisory audits were undertaken for Fraud and the Management of Bingham Market.

In concluding, Mr Ali advised the Group that ‘good progress’ was made in implementing previously agreed management actions from a follow-up review undertaken this year.

This was the last Governance Scrutiny that RSM would attend and the Chairman thanked Mr Ali and his associates for the support and commitment they had provided the Council and its officers over the past decade.

It was RESOLVED that the Internal Audit annual Report 2019/20 be noted.