Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Internal Audit Manager.

The Committee considered the report which summarised the internal audit team’s findings from their work during the year and set out the Internal Audit Manager’s independent opinion on the adequacy of the authority’s internal control environment.  The opinion supports the Annual Governance Statement.

The Internal Audit Manager highlighted areas where recommendations had been made for improvement.  Appendix 1 set out the work undertaken by internal audit in greater detail and included the recommendations issued and assurance opinion for each audit carried out during the year. All other work including some corporate tasks that were undertaken in the year were also outlined. 

Questions were raised regarding the level of GDPR training provided to staff and managers and what was deemed sufficient.  Concern was expressed that the report was devoid of target dates for actions or completion dates and it was agreed that these would be provided in future to assist the Committee in supporting the internal audit team.  The Committee also commented that it would be useful for the report to contain details of audits closed during the year.

It was agreed that the Chairman and Vice Chairman would work with officers on the format of the report to ensure it met the needs of the Committee.

The Committee resolved to note the Internal Audit Annual Report for 2019-20.