Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Deputy Leader

Forward Plan Ref: 2010/203

Contact: Graham Shaw, Acting Head of ICT Tel: (01865) 816593

Report by Acting Head of ICT and Dr Geoff Jones, Chairman of AWG, on behalf of the Audit Working Group (CA13).

The Audit Committee at its meeting on 17 November 2010 required the report of the Audit Working Group to be referred to Cabinet together with an update by the Acting Head of ICT of how the matters raised in the report have been addressed

so that the findings and response can be taken into account as part of the budget process.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to consider the conclusions of the report from Dr Jones and the actions described in the update report from the Acting Head of ICT Services.

Cabinet considered the report of the Audit Working Group together with an update by the Acting Head of ICT of how the matters raised in the report had been addressed so that the findings and response can be taken into account as part of the budget process.

Councillor Jean Fooks, Opposition Deputy Leader commented that it was a very thorough report and the update was useful.. She expressed a slight concern around the new pressures referred to at paragraph 66 of the report. She highlighted the lack of in-house SAP experts and the need for proper general IT training.

Councillor Robertson thanked the Audit Working Group and Dr Jones for their work on this matter. He accepted the recommendations in the report and commented that many were already done or underway.

RESOLVED:                        to accept the recommendations set out in the report of the Audit Working Group and to note that many were already in progress.