Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Corporate Director, Resources that sought approval of the updated Local Code of Corporate Governancefor inclusion in the Council’s Constitution(for copy see file of Minutes).

The Risk, Insurance & Governance Manager highlighted the changes and advised that in order to make the document more reader friendly and accessible it was proposed to summarise the key points.  He went on to explain that in order to provide continuous assurance senior management had agreed to provide feedback on governance issues during quarterly risk reviews rather than through an intense period between March and April each year.

Further to a discussion about making more information available to the public the committee were assured that the wording in the AGS would be clearer in terms of when this information would be available.  The Chief Internal Auditor and Corporate Fraud Manager assured the committee that the information was gathered in a secure environment and feedback was received on when inspections and quality reviews took place.  A level of judgement was then made about the level of reliance and a combined assurance opinion given.

Resolved:

That the revised Local Code of Corporate Governance be approved.