Issue - meetings

Members considered an update on progress, carried out by Assurance Lincolnshire against the 2018/19 annual programmes.

This was the final internal audit report for 2018/19; there were seven final assurance reports that took place during the period.  Two of these achieved high assurance, and the remaining five achieved substantial assurance. 

The internal audit plan was being delivered, and there were no overdue actions.

Following this introduction, further comment was provided by Members and officers:

·         There were much fewer outstanding items when compared to previous years.  26 actions were being worked on across a range of audits;

·         There was a level of oversight to make sure that actions arising from audits were progressed; in addition realistic timescales had been put in place.  A cultural and behavioural change had taken place at West Lindsey;

·         The targets set for the audit were no less robust than in previous years, but the systems of control had improved.

RESOLVED to note the report.