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Apologies
To receive any apologies for absence. Additional documents: |
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Minutes of the previous meeting of the Audit, Governance and Standards Committee
To approve the minutes of the previous meeting of the Committee held on 1 February 2021. Additional documents: |
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Declarations of Interest
To receive and note any declarations of disclosable pecuniary or prejudicial or personal interests in respect of any matters included on the agenda for consideration at this meeting.
(The personal interests of Councillors and Clerks of Somerset County Council, Town or Parish Councils and other Local Authorities will automatically be recorded in the minutes.) Additional documents: |
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Public Participation
The Chair to advise the Committee of any items on which members of the public have requested to speak and advise those members of the public present of the details of the Council’s public participation scheme.
For those members of the public who have submitted any questions or statements, please note, a three minute time limit applies to each speaker and you will be asked to speak before Councillors debate the issue.
Temporary measures during the Coronavirus Pandemic Due to the Government guidance on measures to reduce the transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19), we will holding meetings in a virtual manner which will be live webcast on our website. Members of the public will still be able to register to speak and ask questions, which will then be read out by the Governance and Democracy Case Manager during Public Question Time and will either be answered by the Chair of the Committee, or the relevant Portfolio Holder, or be followed up with a written response. Additional documents: |
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Audit, Governance and Standards Committee Forward Plan
To receive items and review the Forward Plan. Additional documents: |
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Grant Thornton External Audit Progress Report and Sector update
The report provides the Audit, Governance and Standards Committee with a progress report on the work of the external auditors, Grant Thornton, together with information relating to emerging issues which may be relevant to the Council.
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SWAP Internal Audit - Progress Report 2020/21
This report summarises the work of the Council’s Internal Audit Service and details any new significant weaknesses identified and a schedule of audits completed during the period.
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SWAP Internal Audit - Audit Plan and Charter 2021/22
This report introduces the Internal Audit Plan for 2021/22 and the Internal Audit Charter.
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Local Code of Corporate Governance
This report presents the Committee with the updated Code of Corporate Governance for the 2021/22 financial year.
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Changes to the Constitution
This report presents the Committee with the drafted Member Champions Protocol and Member Working Group Protocol for consideration before going to Council for approval.
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Chair's Annual Report
This report is the Annual Report from the Chair of the Audit, Governance and Standards Committee, which is for consideration before going to Council on the 30th March.
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Access to Information - Exclusion of the Press and Public
During discussion of the following item it may be necessary to pass the following resolution to exclude the press and public having reflected on Article 13 13.02(e) (a presumption in favour of openness) of the Constitution. This decision may be required because consideration of this matter in public may disclose information falling within one of the descriptions of exempt information in Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act. The Committee will need to decide whether, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption, outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.
Recommend that under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 the public be excluded from the next item of business on the ground that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 respectively of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, namely information relating to any individual.
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Monitoring Officer Update
This report will be a verbal update on any items that the Monitoring Officer needs to make the Committee aware of. |