Agenda

Audit, Standards and Governance Committee - Thursday 15th October 2026 6.00 p.m.

Venue: Parkside Suite - Parkside. View directions

Contact: Sarah Woodfield 

Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for Absence and Named Substitutes

2.

Declarations of Interest and Whipping Arrangements

To invite Councillors to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary interests or Other Disclosable Interests they may have in items on the agenda, and to confirm the nature of those interests.

 

 

3.

To confirm the accuracy of the minutes of the Audit, Standards and Governance Committee meeting held on 13th July 2026 pdf icon PDF 365 KB

4.

Standards Regime - Monitoring Officers' Report pdf icon PDF 249 KB

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5.

Annual Update Report on Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) pdf icon PDF 412 KB

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6.

Annual Statistics from the Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman pdf icon PDF 228 KB

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7.

Risk Champion - Verbal Update Report

8.

Corporate Risk Update Quarter 2, 2026/27 pdf icon PDF 689 KB

9.

External Audit Progress Report and Sector Update pdf icon PDF 383 KB

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10.

Internal Audit Progress Report pdf icon PDF 309 KB

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11.

Financial Compliance Report pdf icon PDF 477 KB

12.

Annual Governance Statement 2025/26 Action Plan Update pdf icon PDF 699 KB

13.

Audit, Standards and Governance Committee Procedure Rules pdf icon PDF 577 KB

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14.

Audit, Standards and Governance Self-Assessment pdf icon PDF 420 KB

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15.

Audit, Standards and Governance Committee Work Programme pdf icon PDF 207 KB

16.

To consider any urgent business, details of which have been notified to the Head of Legal, Democratic and Property Services prior to the commencement of the meeting and which the Chairman considers to be of so urgent a nature that it cannot wait until the next meeting

17.

To consider, and if considered appropriate, to pass the following resolution to exclude the public from the meeting during the consideration of item(s) of business containing exempt information:-

RESOLVED: that under Section 100 I of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, the public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of scheme 12A to the Act, as amended, the relevant paragraph of that part, in each case, being as set out below and that it is in the public interest to do so:-

 

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18.

Cyber Security Assurance and March 2026 Incident Review pdf icon PDF 247 KB

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