Issue - meetings

To receive the 2020/21 Internal Audit & Investigations - Quarter 2 Progress Report.

The Committee received the 2020/21 Internal Audit and Investigations – Quarter 2 Progress Report.

During the discussion of this item, the following points were made:

·         The Committee had received the annual report at the previous meeting.

·         The Assistant Director Governance introduced the Senior Specialist – Audit and Investigations and the Head of Audit and Investigation. The Senior Specialist had undertaken the follow up work on the equalities and Public Health audits.

·         The Head of Audit and Investigations indicated that the report highlighted progress up to September.  There had been a need to refocus the audit work due to Covid as there had been some vacancies within the team and also some of the team had been redeployed.  The Head of Audit and Investigations was confident that the team would be in a position to provide an audit opinion.

·         The Public Health and Equalities audits had improved to Category 2.

·         Councillor Gee felt that the layout of the report was confusing.  She questioned what ‘H, M and L’ meant.  The Lead Specialist – Audit and Investigations indicated that it stood for high, medium or low levels of concerns. 

·         Councillor Gee commented that it would be helpful to have more detail around the areas of concerns.  The Senior Specialist – Audit and Investigations offered to provide a summary with regards to the Public Health and Equalities audits.  Future reports could contain an appendix of findings.

·         Councillor Burgess stated that it would be helpful to have more information on high risks and what actions had been taken.

RESOLVED:  That the 2020/21 Internal Audit and Investigation Quarter 2 Progress Report be noted.