Issue - meetings

To receive a report providing an update of the work of the Internal Audit Service since the last meeting.

The Committee received a report (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) presenting an update on the work of the Internal Audit Service since the last meeting.

The Audit Manager, Dan Harris of RSM set out the report noting that good progress was continuing to be made with the 2025/26 plan, with four further reports being finalised since the previous meeting in September and three positive assurance opinions issued since that meeting.

In response to a question from the Committee around the process for sharing compliments and good practices, the Audit Manager advised that in the documents, RSM had lifted the conclusion and executive summary so a lot more detail had gone in the report that had been considered by officers regarding that, and there were a number of processes in place to pick up those compliments.

A further question was raised by the Committee regarding recent government legislation in the form of the Renters’ Rights Act and how this might affect the Council. The Housing Team would provide a written answer which would be circulated to the Committee.

Whereupon, it was

RESOLVED

that the report on the update on work undertaken by Internal Audit up to the end of November 2025 be received and noted.