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This report introduces the Internal Audit Plan and Charter for 2024-2025.

This report introduced the Internal Audit Plan and Charter for 2024-2025.

The following items were considered:

a)            Council Risk. A Member of the Committee raised that on page 215 a risk highlighted in red is non compliance with safeguarding legislation, internal policies and best practice and queried if that is a particular concern for the Council or if it is always kept in red for checking. The Internal Auditor responded to confirm they have assessed those risks and then considered the areas for inclusion within next year's Internal Audit Plan, and it can be noted that further through the plan, page 219, there is an Audit proposed to cover safeguarding to provide assurance around that risk for Q3. The Business Assurance Manager confirmed that on page 310 there is an Q3 update on the risk in question, which details items in progress to bring the risk down.

Following consideration, the Committee resolved  to;

(6 for, 1 abstaining)

(1)      Endorse the Internal Audit Plan 2024-2025 as set out at Appendix 1.

(2)      Approve the Internal Audit Charter 2024-2025 as set out in Appendix 2.