Venue: To be held as an online video conference. To access the meeting, click on the 'View the Webcast' link below
Contact: Jay Bell, Democratic Services Email: jay.bell@sheffield.gov.uk
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Apologies for Absence Additional documents: Minutes:
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Exclusion of the Press and Public To identify items where resolutions may be moved to exclude the press and public. Additional documents: Minutes:
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Declarations of Interest Members to declare any interests they have in the business to be considered at the meeting. Additional documents: Minutes:
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Minutes of Previous Meeting To approve the minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 25th March 2021 Additional documents: Minutes:
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Education Healthcare Plan Report of the Director of Education Additional documents: Minutes:
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Change of Order of Agenda Items Additional documents: Minutes: 6.1 RESOLVED: - The Chair agreed that Item 10 on the agenda, Audit Results (260) Recommendations be considered at item 7
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Audit Results (ISA 260) Recommendations Update of the External Auditors Ernst and Young Additional documents:
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7.1 The external auditors Janet Dawson and Hayley Clarke from Ernst and Young provided an update on the Audit results (ISA 260) recommendations.
7.2 The external auditors advised the committee that they were now ready to give their opinion on the Audit results (ISA 260) recommendations. It was advised that there were no matters to report.
7.3 Key points to note were within the audit differences and this was set out in section four of the Audit Results report. It was reported that the differences made no material impact. It has been agreed with management that the final adjustments be made.
7.4 It was proposed that the Statement of Accounts would be signed off next week.
7.5 Following questions from members it was advised that an error within the report of £18.5m was due to a formula error and was not an overall issue, and in terms of the adjustments needed in the accounts these would be corrected where possible and any due to formula errors would self-correct in following years.
7.6 Thanks were given to all involved for their hard work over the tough year experienced.
7.7 RESOLVED: - that the Committee
1) Notes the 2019-20 Sheffield City Council Audit Results report, and
2) That the Audit and Standards Committee approves the Statement of Accounts for 2019-20 and gives approval for the Chair of Audit and Standards Committee to conclude the audit by signing the Letter of Management Representations and the Statement of Accounts for 2019-20 following the meeting.
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Internal Audit Plan 2021/22 Report of the Senior Finance Manager Additional documents: Minutes:
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Progress on High Opinion Audit Reports Report of the Senior Finance Manager Additional documents: Minutes:
9.1 The Senior Finance Manager, Internal Audit, submitted a report providing an updated position on implementation of recommendations contained in audit reports issued with a high opinion or a limited/no assurance opinion and high organisational impact assessment.
9.2 The report had recently been to Executive Management Team (EMT) and the new Chief Executive Officer was very supportive of the work and requested that a RAG rating be included to the report. Any critical recommendations have also been allocated a nominated EMT member.
9.3 There were currently two critical recommendations, OHMS system recommendation being taken forward by Mick Crofts, Executive Director - Place and Software Licensing recommendation being taken forward by Eugene Walker, Executive Director – Resources.
9.4 Following questions from members it was advised that the Chief Executive and EMT agreed that there would be a consistent approach for each portfolio to be able to track recommendations, for example through SharePoint. Priority would be given to red and amber recommendations.
9.5 RESOLVED: - that the Committee
1) Notes the content of the report
2) Agrees to the removal of the following from the tracker report
· Revenues and Benefits Contact Centre · Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) Review
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Compliance with International Auditing Standards Report of the Head of Strategic Finance Additional documents: Minutes:
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Report of the Director of Legal and Governance. Additional documents: Minutes:
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Dates of Future Meetings To note that meetings of the Committee will be held at 5.00 p.m. on:-
Thursday 10th June 2021 Thursday 29th July 2021 Additional documents: Minutes:
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