Issue - meetings

Members received a report on the status of the internal audit recommendations as at December 2015.    Members were advised that the Council operated a classification system of ‘essential’, ‘desirable’ and ‘best practice’ for the audit recommendations. There were no essential recommendations outstanding.

Some Members asked how audit recommendations classified as ‘desirable’ and remain outstanding, were chased and implemented if they were not escalated to Members or management.  Members also discussed the possibility of bringing to committee ‘desirable’ recommendations that hadn’t been implemented after a certain period of time, and where they hadn’t been subject to a separate audit, or  been superseded by another recommendation.

Resolved that the report be noted.