Issue - meetings

The Internal Audit Consortium Manager presented a report to review the Council’s compliance with the Code of Corporate Governance requirements during 2019/20 and to present the Annual Governance Statement and associated Action Plan.

The annual review of the Code of Corporate Governance, attached at Appendix A to the officer’s report, showed that compliance had largely been achieved in 2019/20. However, there were a number of significant issues that needed to be addressed and these were included in the Annual Governance Statement and Action Plan, attached at Appendix C and Appendix D respectively to the officer’s report.

The Corporate Management Team had been involved in the review, and the Annual Governance Statement had been updated to include the impact of Covid-19 on the Council’s governance arrangements. The report had been considered by Cabinet at its meeting on 14 July, 2020 (Minute No. 157).

Arising from Members’ questions it was agreed that the report be further considered within the exempt part of the meeting prior to the decision being taken in the reconvened public part of the meeting.