Issue - meetings

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of internal audit activity against the assurance work completed in accordance with the approved audit plan (2024-25) and to provide an overview of the status of management actions.

The Committee received a report providing an overview of internal audit activity against the assurance work completed in accordance with the approved audit plan (2024-25) and providing an overview of the status of management actions.

The following matters were considered:

a)            Playgrounds. A Member of the Committee asked what the subject of the report was regarding playgrounds. The Internal Audit Manager informed the Committee that the playground review was looking at the inspection regime of the playground equipment, how repairs are identified and managed, the health and safety of the users of playgrounds, and the maintenance of the assets and their life cycle. The Internal Audit Manager explained that the review is still under discussion with management, who have not yet signed off the accuracy of the report, so the assurance opinion is still subject to change depending on whether any inaccuracies are highlighted within the draft report.

b)            Thanks. A Member of the Committee thanked officers for their timely responses to questions that were raised prior to the meeting regarding the exempt appendix 2 document.

Following consideration, the Committee unanimously resolved to:

(1)      Note the internal audit progress report from Southern Internal Audit Partnership (SIAP) attached at Appendix 1.