Agenda item

6.1

The Committee received a report of the Senior Finance Manager (Internal Audit) was to present the progress made against recommendations in the audit reports that have been given a high opinion, a no assurance opinion or a limited assurance with high organisational impact opinion.

6.2

The Senior Finance Manager (Internal Audit) explained that this report was brought to the Audit & Standards Committee every 6 months to update the Committee.

6.3

The Senior Finance Manager (Internal Audit) informed the Committee that recommendations on the tracker will remain there until internal audit felt that sufficient progress had been made. Then, the Committee would be asked for approval to remove that recommendation.

6.4

There was report with one (with three recommendations) which internal audit was asking the Committee for approval to remove. This was the Information Security audit which internal audit felt the three recommendations had been sufficiently actioned.

6.5

One review was added to the recommendation tracker in December 2021. This was not followed-up for the last report due to longer than usual implementation date, and so was included in the report. This was Adult Safeguarding. In addition, there was also two new reports added to the tacker for this period. These were Disposal of IT Assets and Creditors Audit Review of Non-Standards Payments. There was a total of 29 recommendations on the tracker, in which 16 of those had been implemented with 13 still ongoing.

6.6

It was mentioned that this tracker was taken to the Performance and Delivery Board on 17/5/22 for review and comment.

6.7

Members of the Committee asked questions and the following responses were provided: -

6.8

The Senior Finance Manager (Internal Audit) agreed to amend the report to reflect that September had 30 days instead of 31.

6.9

The Senior Finance Manager (Internal Audit) explained the difficulty of getting training mandated across the service. The Senior Finance Manager (Internal Audit) agreed to check with the Safeguarding lead whether Persons in Position of Trust training was requested to be mandated, and if not why.

6.10

RESOLVED: That (1) the Audit and Standards Committee noted the content of the report; (2) That the Audit and Standards Committee agreed to the removal of the following report from the tracker – information security incidents; and (3) That the Senior Finance Manager (Internal Audit) agreed to check whether Persons in Position of Trust training was requested to be mandated, and if not why.