Issue - meetings

The Head of Audit and Management Assurance presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'D' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

The Plan set out the reports to be considered by the Audit and Governance Committee for the 2021/22 municipal year in order to enable it to fulfil its terms of reference.

The Committee noted that the next meeting of the Committee, on 31 March 2022, was a single-item meeting to consider proposals relating to the provisions within the Constitution for overview and scrutiny.

The final core business meeting was therefore on 14 April 2022 at which meeting the Committee would receive, for approval, a full draft Forward Plan for the next Municipal Year.

Although there would be an item on the agenda of the meeting on 14 April on Statement of Accounts, it was noted that, by necessity, this may be merely the provision of a further update.

The Chairman reminded the Committee that he continued to seek suggestions for items for particular in-depth consideration and that he would write again to the Committee to re-enforce this. Items already identified for consideration in the new Municipal Year included review of Insurance arrangements and of Risk Management as well as the receipt of some additional recommendations to come through to the Committee from the Constitution Review Working Group.

It was also noted that follow-up action identified by the Committee at its previous meeting relating to ‘BCP FuturePlaces’ was underway with, initially, the outcome of an update on that work going to the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Committee. The Chairman confirmed that if there were any further issues arising from the update which required further report to the Committee, an item would be added to the agenda for a future meeting as appropriate.