Meeting Details

Audit and Scrutiny Committee
25 Sep 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 29 May 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).

  1. pdf 180529 Minute (143Kb)

Submit report by the Chief Executive on the end of year 2017/18 Council Plan/Directorate Plan Performance Reports (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Chief Executive on 2017/18 Public Performance Reporting and the Annual Performance Report 2017/18 (copy enclosed). 

Submit report by the Chief Executive on results of the Local Government Benchmarking Framework and priorities identified by Directorates (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Chief Executive on the work the Council is doing in preparation for Brexit (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the Council's performance and the volumes and trends of complaints in 2017/18 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the findings of the 2017/18 Annual Audit report and receive a verbal update from the external auditor (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Head of Service (Inclusion) on the progress the Council is making on the Early Learning and Childcare Expansion Programme (copy enclosed).

  1. pdf 9 ELC Expansion (138Kb)

Submit report by the Executive Director (Economy and Communities) on Audit Scotland's report on Councils' use of arms-length organisations (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Place) on the Council's response to the Scottish Government's report of the minimum recommended standards for the provision of Gypsy Traveller sites (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Director of North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership on the financial performance of the HSCP for 2018/19 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the outcome of the National Fraud Initiative (NFI) exercise concluded in 2018 (copy enclosed).

  1. pdf NFI 2016-17 (117Kb)

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the progress made by Council Services in implementing the agreed actions from Internal Audit and Corporate Fraud reports as at 30 June 2018 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the findings of Internal Audit work completed between May and August 2018 (copy enclosed).

16 Urgent Items

Any other items which the Chair considers to be urgent.

17 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 May and August 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

  1. pdf 180925 Minute (91Kb)

Members Attending

Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
NameReason for Sending Apology
Councillor John SweeneyUnable 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:

In Attendance

E. Murray, Chief Executive, L. Friel, Executive Director, D. Forbes, Senior Manager (Financial Services), P. Doak, Senior Manager (Internal Audit, Risk and Fraud) and D. Miller, Complaint and Feedback Manager (Finance and Corporate Support); C. Hatton, Executive Director and R. McGilvery, Area Housing Manager (Place); S. Brown, Director (NAHSCP) and C. Whyte, Head of Finance (Health and Social Care Partnership); C. Amos, Head of Service (Inclusion) and D. Walkinshaw, Business Manager (Education and Youth Employment); K. Yeomans, Executive Director and A. Sutton, Head of Service (Connected Communities) (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).

 

Also in Attendance

Pat Kenny, Deloitte.




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