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Disclosures of Personal and Prejudicial Interests. Minutes: In accordance with the Code
of Conduct adopted by the City and County of Swansea, no interests were
declared. |
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Wales Audit Office Report - Audit Committee Review of Performance 2016/17. PDF 111 KB Minutes: Gareth Lewis and Geraint Norman, Wales Audit Office
facilitated a session to allow the Audit Committee to complete a review of its
performance during 2016/17. Members were asked to consider the
areas of Committee work they felt had gone well and those they felt could be
improved. The session was based around
the 7 core functions of an audit committee established
by CIPFA. The core principles discussed were: - ·
Assurance Statements including the Annual
Governance Statement; ·
Internal Audit; ·
Risk Management; ·
Control Environment including value for money
and countering fraud and corruption; ·
External Audit and other inspection agencies; ·
Relationship between External Audit, Internal
Audit, inspection agencies and other relevant bodies; ·
Financial Statements. The Wales Audit Office would feed back the results of the
session for consideration and inclusion in the Audit Committee Annual Report
2016/17. The Chair thanked the Wales Audit Office representatives for
leading the discussions.
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Audit Committee - Action Tracker. (For Information) PDF 82 KB Minutes: The Audit Committee Action Tracker was
provided for information. The Committee discussed Section 106 Agreements and Risk
Management. RESOLVED that: - 1)
The contents of the report be noted; 2) The outcome relating to Councillor access to the Section 106 database be reopened due to insufficient information being available. |
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Audit Committee Work Plan. (For Information) PDF 60 KB Minutes: The Audit Committee Work Plan
was reported for information. The Committee requested that the
Chief Education Officer be reminded that he was required to attend the Special
Audit Committee on 28 March 2017. Geraint Norman, Wales Audit
Office (WAO) informed the Committee that the final WAO Grants Report 2015/16
would be reported to the Committee in June 2017. |