Meeting Details

Audit and Scrutiny Committee
29 May 2018 - 10:00 to 12:00
Occurred
Meeting open to the public.
  • Documents
  • Members Attending
  • Others Attending
  • Declarations of Interests

Documents

Agenda

Agenda Items
1 Declarations of Interest

Members are requested to give notice of any declarations of interest in respect of items of business on the Agenda.

The accuracy of the Minutes of the meeting of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee held on 27 March 2018 will be confirmed and the Minutes signed in accordance with Paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (copy enclosed).

Presentations

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on a progress update on the operational budget management in the Health and Social Care Partnership (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Chief Executive on the 2018 update on the Council's Directorate Plans for 2015?18 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Health and Social Care Partnership) on the findings and grades relating to Health and Social Care Partnership managed services over 2017/18 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Place) on the annual Care Inspectorate reports for North Ayrshire Council Housing Support Services (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the sickness absence trends for the period 23013/14 - 2017/18 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the finding of Internal Audit work during March and April 2018 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the progress made in implementing the agreed actions from the Action Plans report as at 31 March 2018 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the work of Internal Audit during 2017/18 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the work of the Corporate Fraud Team during 2017/18 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the accounting policies to be adopted in the preparation of the Council's annual accounts for the year to 31 March 2018 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the Council's Annual Governance Statement 2017/18 which will be included within the annual accounts (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the Local Scrutiny Plan for North Ayrshire for 2018/19 and the National Scrutiny Plan (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on progress made in implementing the agreed action plan arising from the external audit of the Council's 2015/16 and 2016/17 accounts(copy enclosed).

Submit report b the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the Strategic Risk Register 2018/19 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the findings of the recent Audit Scotland national report (copy enclosed).

18 Urgent Items

Any other items which the Chair considers to be urgent.

19 Exclusion of the Public

Resolve in terms of Section 50(A)4 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, to exclude from the Meeting the press and the public for the following item of business on the grounds indicated in terms of Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 7A  of the Act.

 

Non Disclosure of Information

In terms of Standing Order 19 (Disclosure of Information), the information contained within the following report is confidential information within the meaning of Section 50A of the 1973 Act and shall not be disclosed to any person by any Member or Officer.

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the findings of corporate fraud investigations completed between March and April 2018 (copy enclosed).

Sederunt
Audit and Scrutiny Committee
Marie Burns (Chair)
Margaret George (Vice Chair)
Joy Brahim
Alan Hill
Tom Marshall
Donald Reid
John Sweeney

Additional Meeting Documents

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Members Attending

Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
NameReason for Sending Apology
Councillor Tom MarshallUnable to attend
NameReason for Absence
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

Others Attending

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:


E. Murray, Chief Executive, L. Friel, Executive Director, S. Hanif, Head of Finance (HSCP), M. Boyd, Head of Service (Finance), D. Forbes, Senior Manager (Financial Services), P. Doak, Senior Manager (Internal Audit, Risk and Performance), A. M. Fenton, Team Manager (Internal Audit) and J. Hamilton, Senior Manager (Employee Services) (Finance and Corporate Support); Y. Baulk, Head of Physical Environment, J. Barrett, Senior Manager (Homelessness and Community Safety) and K. Campbell, Facilities Manager (Place); S. Brown, Director North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership; J. Butcher, Executive Director (Education and Youth Employment); A. Sutton, Head of Service Connected Communities and M Strachan, Senior Business Manager (Economy and Communities); A. Fraser, Head of Democratic Services, M. Davison, Senior Manager (Democratic Services), A Todd, Senior Policy and Performance Officer and A. Little, Committee Services Officer (Chief Executive’s).



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