Issue - meetings

Members considered an update on the Governance and Audit Committee’s effectiveness action plan.

The Corporate Policy Manager introduced the report, and informed Committee that the Governance and Audit Committee Effectiveness working group had met and reviewed areas for improvement highlighted by a survey carried out by committee members in March 2020.  An action plan had been devised, setting out the working group’s intentions.

It was hoped that if proposed, the items in the action plan would be completed by July 2021.

The following points were highlighted:

·         Members were keen to continue with pre-meetings before the formal Governance and Audit committee meeting.  This had not occurred prior to the October 2020 and January 2021 meetings; however this was due to training taking place before these meetings, and there being no desire for a further pre-meeting;

·         Sessions on improving financial literacy had been offered by the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU), and were provisionally pencilled in for February and early March.

The report was moved, seconded, and following a vote it was unanimously RESOLVED to:

(1)  Approve the Action Plan;

(2)  Be assured that the Action Plan would adequately address the identified areas for improvement;

(3)  Request that progress on the Action Plan be reported back to the committee in July 2021.