25 Report of Internal Audit Activity Plan Progress 2019/20 - August 2019 PDF 2 MB
To receive a report from
South West Audit Partnership (SWAP).
Minutes:
The
committee received the South West Audit Partnership (SWAP) report of Internal
Audit activity plan progress report for the 2019/20 year. The plan progress reports provided an ongoing
opinion to support the end of year annual opinion and also provided details of
any significant risks that had been identified, along with the progress of
mitigating previously identified significant risks by audit. It was reported that the ongoing audit opinion
remained as reasonable and that there
had been no significant risks identified in internal audit work in 2019/20 to
date.
In
response to a question it was noted that an audit on ethics and culture and separate
audits of transformation were to take place during the next half of the
year. In addition, the Executive
Director of Corporate Development agreed to include an item on staff
recruitment and retention on the agenda for the next meeting of the
committee. He also noted that a staff
engagement survey had been undertaken and as part of Organisational Development
being undertaken, staff base line and monitoring was taking place. SWAP had also undertaken a survey of the
effectiveness of communications with staff.