Meeting Details

Audit and Scrutiny Committee
10 Sep 2019 - 10:00 to 12:30
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 Ordinary Meeting of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee held on 18 June 2019 and the Special Meeting held on 27 June 2019 will be confirmed and the Minutes signed in accordance with Paragraph 7 (1) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (copies enclosed).

  1. pdf 2 Minutes (143Kb)

Submit report by Caroline Whyte, Chief Finance and Transformation Officer on the projected financial outturn for the financial year as at June 2019 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Interim Executive Director (Communities) on progress with the expansion of Early Learning and Childcare (copy enclosed).

  1. pdf ELC Update (109Kb)

Submit report by the Interim Executive Director (Communities) on the performance of North Ayrshire schools and early learning and childcare settings in external inspections published during session 2018/19 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Place) on the actions taken by Planning Services to date in respect of Seafield House, Ardrossan (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Place) on the Council's Annual Return on the Charter 2018/19 submission and endorsement of the Annual Assurance Statement (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Head of Democratic Services on the development sessions provided to Councillors to 30 June 2019 and on future planned sessions (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Chief Executive on the outcome of the self-evaluation of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee undertaken as part of the improvement actions identified in the External Audit Interim Report 2018/19 (copy enclosed).

  1. pdf Self-Evaluation (152Kb)

Submit report by the Head of Democratic Services on the Council's complaint performance and the volume and trends of complaints received in 2018/19 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Head of Democratic Services on Council planning arrangements in relation to a no-deal EU exit (copy enclosed).

  1. pdf Brexit and Apps (307Kb)

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on progress made by services in implementing the agreed actions from Internal Audit and Corporate Fraud reports as at 30 June 2019 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on the findings of Internal Audit work completed between May and July 2019 (copy enclosed).

14 Urgent Items

Any other items which the Chair considers to be urgent.

15 Exclusion of the Public - Para 1

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 finding of the corporate fraud investigations completed between May and June 2019 (copy enclosed).

Submit report by the Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Support) on an update to a Corporate Fraud report (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 190910 Minute (46Kb)

Members Attending

Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
NameReason for Sending Apology
Councillor Margaret GeorgeUnable to Attend
NameReason for Absence
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
Councillor John SweeneyAgenda Item 4 Early Learning and Childcare UpdateOn the basis that a close relative worked in early yearsNon-PecuniaryTook no part in the discussion thereon

Others Attending

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

L. Friel, Executive Director and P. Doak, Senior Manager (Internal Audit, Risk and Fraud) (Finance and Corporate Support); S. Brown, Director and C. Whyte, Chief Finance and Transformation Officer (Health and Social Care Partnership); A. McClelland, Head of Service (Learning, Teaching and Curriculum) (Communities), J. Miller, Senior Manager, Planning and J. Cameron, Senior Manager, Physical Environment (Place); and A. Fraser, Head of Democratic Services and D. McCaw, Committee Services Officer (Chief Executive’s Service).


___ Members of public expressed a desire to address the meeting.