Issue - meetings

To receive and consider the report of the Director of Governance

Dawn Highton, Service Lead Audit and Risk detailed the function of the Internal Audit Report.

Covid-19 had an impact on the ability to deliver a detailed review. 2020 did not have a systematic production of management actions. The implementation rate achieved was 64%, below the target, but a baseline to work from.

Due to the inability to undertake a significant volume of work, an annual opinion could not be given, this was not a negative for the Council, but was based on the ability to test and provide assurance.

Data provided relating to business support grants paid in the early stages of the pandemic had been matched by the National Fraud Initiative (NFI). This did not mean that there was fraudulent activity but does trigger an investigation of the matched applications.

The Quality and Assurance Programme will identify where action is needed for delivery over the period of the year.

Decision: The report was noted