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Meeting: 06/03/2019 - Audit & Governance Committee (Item 12)

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To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 9 January 2019 and to receive information arising from them.

Decision:

The minutes of the meeting on 9 January 2019 were approved and signed with the following amendment:

 

Item 8/19

The first sentence of the final bullet point was amended to read as follows-

“An extra £120m to be spent on Highways and Property is in the Capital Programme to be approved by Council in February 2019.”

 

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting on 9 January 2019 were approved and signed with the following amendment:

 

Item 8/19

The first sentence of the final bullet point was amended to read as follows-

“An extra £120m to be spent on Highways and Property is in the Capital Programme to be approved by Council in February 2019.”

 

With regard to Item 5/19, Lorna Baxter confirmed that the Financial Management Action Plan is on target to be completed by the end of March.

 

Sarah Cox confirmed that the preferred candidate for the position of Senior Auditor has accepted the offer.

 

It was agreed that there needs to be an update on the Council’s Back-up and Recovery plan for IT whether that is taken at the Transformation Sub-Committee, the Audit Working Group or the main Committee.

 

Regarding the proposed item on Oxford Direct Services for the May meeting, this will look at the governance.  The Chairman suggested that a second discussion at a later meeting will be held when Internal Audit has reported on the contract.

 

Nick Graham confirmed that there is a report on dealing with home care in-house on the agenda of the March Cabinet meeting.