Mark Day

...the Audit Committee Annual Report 2024/25, the 2025/26 Work Programme, and the Audit Committee Self-Assessment were approved as set out.

...to approve the Chief Internal Auditor’s Annual Report for 2024-25, taking assurance from the report's findings and the reasonable assurance opinion on the Council's control environment, while also tasking the COO to provide a note on the Home to School Transport review and including a summary of new failure to prevent fraud offences in the next counter fraud update.

...to approve the recommendations and express thanks to the Committee, cooptees, and officers.

...the 2024/25 draft Annual Governance Statement was approved as a draft, to be signed by the Chief Executive, and then brought back to the Committee for final approval after public inspection and external audit, to be signed by the Leader.