Issue - meetings

To consider and note the Annual Internal Audit report for 2020-21.

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.

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.  Further monitoring will be undertaken in November to coincide with the next progress report to the Audit Committee. 

Other work streams, undertaken by the team including some corporate tasks that were undertaken in the year) were also outlined.

The Internal Audit Manager advised it was useful to look at the report in conjunction with key themes and issues some of which were set out 1.8 of the report and highlighted several areas of good practice.

The Committee resolved to note the report.