Issue - meetings

To consider the establishment of the Value for Money Working Group following the change to a Committee system form of governance.

The Committee considered the re-establishment of a Value for Money (VFM) Task Group as it was necessary for all task groups to be reconstituted following the change to a Committee system form of governance.  The work of the group focused on the outstanding issue of the 2017/18 Value for Money Opinion which had not yet been provided by KPMG, the Council’s previous external auditors. 

The draft Terms of Reference for the VFM Group were circulated to members of the Committee and are attached.

It was proposed that the Chair and Vice Chair of the Audit Committee and two other members of the previous working group be appointed to ensure continuity in the Council’s efforts to resolve the outstanding matters relating to the 2017/18 Value for Money Opinion.

The Committee resolved to appoint Councillors Boughtflower, Fidler, Nichols and Mitchell members of the Value for Money Working Group and approve the Terms of Reference.