The Committee received a report by the Internal Audit Manager (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) that informed Members of the work completed and was undertaken by the Internal Audit Service. It incorporated not only progress against the Internal Audit Plan but also audit actions tracking information. Which provided visibility to Members of the progress being made in closing out audit actions in order to mitigate risk impacts and to strengthen governance. It also provided information of any resource information from within the Team and any revised Internal Audit Plan for the remainder of the year which can be used for informing the Committee on any governance issues or developments.
The Committee noted tracking information on overdue audit actions – those actions that have not been implemented by management by the agreed due date. Currently there are 23 such overdue actions (26 reported to the Committee in the last report) and this report presents the action owners’ updates on progress.
The risk management and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) summary findings are reported (with caveat that the BCP is still at draft stage) together with initial details of the District Council response and update.
In accordance with the Internal Audit Charter, the Internal Audit Manager continues to report functionally to the Corporate Governance Committee and administratively to the Director of Finance and Corporate Resources. They have maintained organisational independence and have had no constraints placed upon them in respect of determining overall audit coverage, audit methodology, the delivery of the audit plan or proposing actions for improvement or forming opinions on individual audit reports issued.
As a result of discussions on the report the Chair moved, and it was
RESOLVED
that the contents of the report be noted.