Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services.

It is a requirement of the Public Sector Internal Audit Standards (PSIAS) that the Internal Audit and Risk Manager prepares an annual report containing an overall opinion on the Council’s control framework.
The attached report contains this statement and details the audit work undertaken in the year from which the overall opinion has been drawn.

The Audit Committee are invited to consider and comment on the report.

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

A representative of the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) detailing the Internal Audit and Risk Manager’s annual report containing an overall opinion on the Council’s control framework, and details of the audit work undertaken in the year from which the overall opinion had been drawn.

The following comments were made/issues raised:-

·         Members raised concerns with the integration of health and social care and the Authority’s partnership with Carillion and it was expected that the recommendations would be addressed;

·         The necessary savings would be made from Carillion to bridge any shortfalls identified;

·         Business Continuity plans were in place and the assurance had changed from limited to moderate but those plans had not yet been tested;

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.