Issue - meetings

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

The guide aims to help audit and risk committee members discharge their responsibilities in several different areas and to examine the impacts on the organisations of the COVID-a9 outbreak, including on:

·         Annual Reports

·         Financial reporting

·         The control environment and

·         Regularity of expenditure.

Audit Committee is requested to note the report.

Officer contact: John Pearsall Telephone 474 4033 Email: john.pearsall@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Corporate Director, Corporate and Support Services submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) which aimed to help audit and risk committee members discharge their responsibilities in several different areas and to examine the impact on the organisation of the COVID-19 outbreak, including on:

·         Annual Reports

·         Financial Reporting

·         The control environment and

·         Regularity of expenditure.

The following comments were made/issues raised:

·         Members commented that they found the checklist very useful.

·         Members felt that some of the risks identified were unpredictable and that others were certainties.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.