Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Audit Committee
28 Jan 2020 - 14:00 to 16:01
Occurred
Committee Room 6
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  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests
  • Webcast

Documents

Agenda

Public Agenda
1 Notice of Recording/Webcast
The Chairman to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Internet site (www.civico.net/birmingham) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

2 Declarations of Interests
Members are reminded that they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and non pecuniary interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting. If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not speak or take part in that agenda item. Any declarations will be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.
3 Apologies
To receive any apologies.
4 Exempt Information - Possible Exclusion of the Press and Public

  1. To highlight reports or appendices which officers have identified as containing exempt information within the meaning of Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972, and where officers consider that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, for the reasons outlined in the report.

  2. To formally pass the following resolution:-

  • Agenda Item 11 – Equal Pay Update Exempt Appendix 1.

  • Agenda Item 14 – Private Minutes – Audit Committee 16 December 2019. Exempt Paragraph 3 & 7.

  • RESOLVED – That, in accordance with Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended by the Local Government (Access to information) (Variation order) 2006, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of those parts of the agenda designated as exempt on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information.

5 Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman’s Annual Review 2018/19

(10 minutes allocated) (1405 - 1415)

 

Report of the Chief Executive

6 Audit Committee - Future ways of working

(30 minutes allocated) (1415 - 1445)

 

Verbal discussion

7 Grant Thornton - External Auditor Update

(5 minutes allocated) (1445 - 1450)

 

Update from the External Auditor

8 Group Company Governance Assurance - Informing the Audit Risk Assessment

(5 minutes allocated) (1450 - 1455)

 

Report of the Interim Chief Finance Officer

9 Audit Findings Report Recommendations - Progress Update

(5 minutes allocated) (1455 - 1500)

 

Report of the Interim Chief Finance Officer

10 Revised Risk Management Framework

(5 minutes allocated) (1500 - 1505)

 

Report of the Assistant Director, Audit & Risk Management

11 Equal Pay Update – January 2020

(10 minutes allocated) (1505 - 1515)

 

Report of the Corporate Director of Finance and Governance and the City Solicitor and Monitoring Officer

  1. pdf Item 11 - Public Report to Audit Committee 28.01.19 (126Kb)
    1. pdf Item 11 - Exempt Appendix 1 - Equal Pay Summary - January 2020 - Private
12 Early Years Health and Wellbeing Contract

(10 minutes allocated) (1515 - 1525)

 

Report of the Director of Education & Skills

13 Travel Assist

(25 minutes allocated) (1525 - 1550)

 

Report of the Director of Education & Skills

14 Minutes - Audit Committee - 16 December 2019
To confirm and sign the Minutes of the last meeting of the Committee held on 16 December 2019.
  1. pdf Item 14 - Audit Committee 16.12.2019 Public - Final (166Kb)
  2. pdf Item 14 - Exempt - Audit Committee 16.12.2019 Private - Final - Private
15 Schedule of Outstanding Minutes
Information for noting.
16 Date of Next Meeting
The next meeting to take place on Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 1400 hours in Committee Room 6.
17 Other Urgent Business
To consider any items of business by reason of special circumstances (to be specified) that in the opinion of the Chairman are matters of urgency.
18 Authority to Chairman and Officers
Chairman to move:-

'In an urgent situation between meetings, the Chairman jointly with the relevant Chief Officer has authority to act on behalf of the Committee'.

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
Apologies
Absent
NameReason for Absence
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
Councillor Fred Grindrod8Non- Executive Director for Acivico LimitedNon-PecuniaryNo further action required

Visitors

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

  • Councillor Kate Booth, Cabinet Member for Children's Wellbeing
  • Dr Tim O'Neill, Director for Education & Skills
  • Dawn Hewins, Director for Human Resources
  • Nichola Jones, Assistant Director Inclusion and SEND
  • Lindsey Trivett, Head of Early Years, Childcare and Children's Centres

 

  • Jon Roberts, Grant Thornton
  • Laurelin Griffiths, Grant Thornton

 

Webcast



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