Agenda

To receive any apologies or substitutions for the meeting.

To confirm and sign the minutes of the ordinary meeting held on 17 October 2024 and the extraordinary meeting held on 5 December 2024.

To receive any declarations of disclosable interests or dispensations granted by the Standards Committee.

To receive any announcements through the Chairman.

The Council welcomes contributions from members of the public.

Statements

If you would like to make a statement at this meeting on any item on this agenda, please register to do so at least 10 minutes prior to the meeting. Up to 3 speakers are permitted to speak for up to 3 minutes each on any agenda item. Please contact the officer named on the front of the agenda for any further clarification.

Questions

To receive any questions from members of the public or members of the Council received in accordance with the constitution.

Those wishing to ask questions are required to give notice of any such questions in writing to the officer named on the front of this agenda no later than 5pm on Friday 10 January 2025 in order to be guaranteed of a written response. In order to receive a verbal response questions must be submitted no later than 5pm onTuesday 14 January 2025. Please contact the officer named on the front of this agenda for further advice. Questions may be asked without notice if the Chairman decides that the matter is urgent.

Details of any questions received will be circulated to Committee members prior to the meeting and made available at the meeting and on the Council’s website.

To receive the Annual Audit Letter for the 2019/20 audit from the external auditors for that year, Deloitte.

To receive a governance update on improvement actions within the 2023/24 AGS. 

To receive the internal audit updates from SWAP.

To receive management action plans in relation to an Early Years Extended Entitlement no assurance internal audit.

To receive management action plans in relation to a Direct Payments Children’s limited assurance internal audit.

To receive an external audit progress report from Grant Thornton.

To note that there will be an extraordinary meeting of the Committee on 18 February 2025 at 10.30am. The next regular meeting of the Committee will be held on 10 April 2025 at 10.30am.  

To consider passing the following resolution:

To agree that in accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 to exclude the public from the meeting for the business specified in Item Number 16 because it is likely that if members of the public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1 and 3 of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act and the public interest in withholding the information outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information to the public.

Items during whose consideration it is recommended that the public

should be excluded because of the likelihood that exempt

information would be disclosed

To receive an IT audit findings report from the external auditors, Grant Thornton.