Issue - meetings

The Corporate Policy Manager & Deputy Monitoring Officer introduced a report to review the progress with the Annual Governance Statement 2019/20 Action Plan. He reiterated that the Annual Governance Statement was the formal statement of the quality of the Council’s governance arrangements, in accordance with the Accounts and Audit (England) Regulations 2011, and that in September 2020, the Governance and Audit Committee agreed the Annual Governance Statement for 2019/20 and noted that an action plan would be put in place and monitored by the Committee to address a number of issues. He highlighted that the report gave the current position and there would be a subsequent close report to be presented to the Committee.

Members enquired as to the publication of the Peer Review, confirmed as published in its entirety having been presented to Council in January 2021, and in response to a question regarding the strategic risk of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was highlighted that the report was in relation to actions agreed prior to the impact of the pandemic. Subsequent reports to Committee would have greater reference to the risks and impact of Covid-19 across all services.

RESOLVED that Members be assured that the current position of the Annual Governance Statement Action Plan for 2019/20 reflects good progress against all actions.