Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Borough Treasurer.

The report sets out the progress made by internal audit against the approved 2018/19 internal audit plan for the period 1^st November 2018 to 31^st January 2019.   

The report informs Members of the resources utilised by Internal Audit during the period, the activities undertaken in the reporting period, and the status of work currently being undertaken. 

The report also outlines the following:

·         Summary Dashboard 1 shows the status of all audit work, the dates of the draft and final reports, the level of assurance and the time period that the work was completed. (Appendix 3). 

·         Summary Dashboard 2 gives an overview of the status of all audit recommendations by audit review and recommendation grading.   

(Appendix 4).   

·         Summary Dashboard 3 shows the same data as dashboard 2 but specifically for school audits.  (Appendix 5).    

The Committee is requested to note the internal audit progress report.

Officer contact: John Pearsall on 474 4033 or email: john.pearsall@stockport.gov.uk

1.1 approv

The Borough Treasurer submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) setting out progress made by internal audit against the approved 2018/19 internal audit plan for the period 1 November 2018 to 31 January 2019.

The following comments were made/issues raised:-

·         Councillors welcomed the work being undertaken in respect to partnership working and asked how far recommendations detailed in the report had been implemented.

·         The work undertaken in respect to countering fraud was welcomed and the Committee noted the ongoing investigations.

·         Concerns were expressed in respect to the fact that the Clinical Commissioning Group had changed its approach and consequently the Council was now focused on joint commissioning of the current pooled budget only, for the next 12 months.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.