Issue - meetings

To receive and consider the report of the Director of Governance.

Chris Moister, Director of Governance presented his report which updates Members on the outcome of a review of the Local Code of Corporate Governance.

The Council has an adopted Local Code of Corporate Governance, in compliance with CIPFA Guidance, which sets out how the Council delivers it’s Corporate Governance Framework and explains how it operates. The Local Code should be reviewed frequently to ensure it is up to date and reflects the current framework.

A number of policy families have been updated in the last 12 months, however Members acknowledged that the vast majority of the documents remain unchanged. Specific to this Local Code there have been presentational changes this year. The table of interrelationships between principles, statutory obligations and corporate objectives and supporting documents and processes has been moved into the body of the document. Although a small change it clearly shows the core documents and processes which support our framework, making the relationships clearer. The detail of the evidence of compliance has been moved into an appendix.

Resolved: That Members approve the Local Code of Corporate Governance.