Issue - meetings

Consideration was given to a report presenting the Governance and Audit Committee

with the Progress report for April 2026 from Internal Audit.

It was reported that all work for 2025/2026 was completed as planned. There was one final and two draft reports for consideration by members. All audits would be summarised in the Annual Report that would be presented at the next meeting. The programme for 2026/2027 was in place and preparations were underway for those audits.

The report of the Emergency Planning and Business Continuity Planning audit was outlined to members. Overall it was a positive outcome with a reasonable assurance opinion being provided. There were three medium and three low priority management actions agreed for areas of improvement or enhancement.

A member highlighted that training was a recurring issue in audits and asked if there was any record of training provided and how this could be reported. It was agreed that this could be added to the Matters Arising schedule and whilst it would not be able to give individual details a synopsis of training could be provided.

RESOLVED:

That the content of the report be agreed.