30 Annual Governance Statement PDF 220 KB
2.45 p.m.
Report by Monitoring Officer.
The Audit & Governance Committee has the responsibility of approving the Council’s Annual Governance Statement (AGS) each year.
Local authorities are required to prepare an AGS to be transparent about their compliance with good governance principles. This includes reporting on how they have monitored and evaluated the effectiveness of their governance arrangements in the previous year and setting out any planned changes in the coming period.
This year, the coronavirus pandemic has affected both the timing and the content of the AGS. The timetable to produce the AGS was extended nationally. The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting has also advised that Statements should make specific reference to implications of the coronavirus pandemic for our governance.
Consequently, the AGS before you today sets out those implications and how the Council has addressed them. The Committee is asked to approve the AGS.
The Audit & Governance Committee is RECOMMENDED to approve the Annual Governance Statement 2019/20, subject to the Monitoring Officer making any necessary amendments in the light of comments made by the Committee, after consultation with the Leader of the Council, the Chief Executive and the Section 151 officer.
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Decision:
Recommendation agreed.
Minutes:
Glenn Watson introduced the report and noted that this is an update on actions listed as priorities for 2019/20. It has been reviewed by the Audit Working Group at their June meeting and actions taken from that have been reflected in this report as follows:
Officers responded to members queries as follows:
RESOLVED to approve the Annual Governance Statement 2019/20, subject to the Monitoring Officer making any necessary amendments in the light of comments by the Committee, after consultation with the Leader of the Council, the Chief Executive and the Section 151 Officer.