Issue - meetings

Committee is asked to:

1.    Acknowledge the annual review of the Council’s Counter Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Strategy;

2.    Approve the proposed amendments to the Council’s Counter Fraud, Bribery, and Corruption Strategy; and

3.    Recommend to the Council that the Constitution be updated with the revised Counter Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Strategy.

The Committee received a report on the Council’s Counter Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Strategy from the Group Head of Corporate Governance, Linda Heron, who advised that this was a routine annual review to ensure the document remained up to date and aligned with good practice. It was not considered necessary to undertake a full rewrite of the Strategy due to the Local Government Reorganisation, and therefore only minor amendments had been proposed to reflect contextual changes; these were shown using tracked changes.

The Group Head of Corporate Governance clarified that the deleted narrative in sections 3.4 and 3.5 no longer reflected current operational arrangements. She also explained that the issue with the embedded link to other policies was due to the format of the agenda and would be resolved on publication.

Councillor Woodward provided positive feedback, noting that the presentation of tracked changes made it much easier to understand the proposed alterations.

The Committee resolved to:

1. acknowledge the annual review of the Council’s Counter Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Strategy;
2. approve the proposed amendments to the Council’s Counter Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Strategy; and
3. Recommend to Council that the Constitution be updated with the revised Council’s Counter Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Strategy.