Issue - meetings

4.10pm

Report by the Director of Finance.

This report presents the Internal Audit progress report for 2019/20.

The Committee is RECOMMENDED to note the progress with the 2019/20 Internal Audit Plan and the outcome of the completed audits.

Recommendation agreed.

Sarah Cox introduced the report.  She noted that there would be an assessment of resource issues at the end of November which might result in changes to the plan at that point.  Any decision will be on the basis of a risk-based approach.

Councillor Paul Buckley raised a couple of issues under training.  Sarah Cox responded that:

·         The red rating under training resulted from a Health and Safety audit last year which showed that there was no record of who had not done the training.  There is a new Deputy Director of HR on board now and it is expected to resolve this soon.

·         e-learning is appropriate in some circumstances.  Managers receive class-based training.

Councillor Deborah McIlveen asked that it be clarified when training is for compliance reasons or for professional development.

RESOLVED: to note the progress with the 2019/20 Internal Audit Plan and the outcome of the completed audits.