Issue - meetings

Risk Register Monitoring

Meeting: 20/05/2025 - Governance and Audit Committee (Item 6)

6 Audit Wales - Programme & Timetable - Quarter 4 Update January to March 2025 pdf icon PDF 296 KB

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Decision:

That the report be noted.

 

Minutes:

Members received an overview of the circulated report and added that the review of commissioning arrangements has been completed. The report is published and will be coming to the Governance and Audit Committee in July.

Audit Wales explained they are finalising the report on the review of the Council's cyber arrangements and have recently concluded the field work stage of the review of risk management arrangements, both of those reports will be coming to Governance and Audit Committee in due course.

 

Members asked what the timeline was for the risk management arrangements.

Audit Wales explained it is their intention to issue a draft report to the Council in June. Officers explained they would try and get the report to the Committee by September/October 2025. Members asked how long they give management to respond to the draft report when it is issued. Audit Wales explained they have two weeks to respond.

Members asked in terms of the grants, is there anything that the committee should be concerned about in terms of the time span between a grant finishing and the claim and liability.

Audit Wales explained that the bulk of the delays fell on Audit Wales side. There was a delay with a number of areas of work post COVID and some resourcing issues which have now been addressed and have caught up. Audit Wales expressed its a longer delay than they should have been given but are now in a better position and there is no impact on terms of the funding for the grants.

 

RESOLVED:

That the report be noted.