Agenda

To receive the minutes of the Audit & Standards Committee meeting held on 23 March 2023.

To receive the final 2021/22 Audit Findings report and consider the management response to the recommendations in the External Auditors report.

This report sets out the final 2021/22 Audit Findings report and asks the committee to consider the management response to the recommendations therein.

To consider the Audit Risk Assessment for 2022/23 and to note that the Strategic Director for Resources will update this assessment if any further information becomes available prior to the draft 2022/23 Statement of Accounts being issued.

To consider and comment on the Audit Risk Assessment for 2022/23, attached at Appendix 1 to the report.

The Committee is asked to endorse the Draft 2022/23 Annual Governance Statement for onward consideration by the Council’s External Auditor.

To receive the Annual Report of the Audit and Standards Committee for the period 2022/2023.

To consider the items for the Committee’s Work Programme and note the dates of future meetings to be held at Shire Hall, Warwick, as follows:

- 20 July 2023

- 21 September 2023

- 30 November 2023

- March 2024 - TBC

All meetings to commence at 10am

To consider passing the following resolution:

‘That members of the public be excluded from the meeting for the items mentioned below on the grounds that their presence would involve the disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of Part 1 of the Local Government Act 1972’.

The Committee is asked to consider the results of internal audit work completed and the outcome of the External Quality Assessment of Conformance to the Public Sector Internal Audit Standards.

To receive the exempt minutes of the Audit & Standards Committee held on 23 March 2023.