Issue - meetings

4.1      To approve the minutes of the previous meeting held on Tuesday 24 March 2026 as a correct record.

4.2      To note the updated Action Log from previous meetings of the Audit & Standards Advisory Committee.

4.1     To approve the minutes of the previous meeting held on Tuesday 25 March 2025 as a correct record.

(Agenda republished to include the attached minutes on 12 June 2025)

4.2     To note the updated Action Log from previous meetings of the Audit & Standards Advisory Committee.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the previous meetings held on Tuesday 25 March 2025 be approved as a correct record, subject to the following amendment:

Min 12: Strategic Risk Review – 3^rd bullet point page 18 of agenda pack final sentence being amended to read:

“In noting the Committee’s focus around the management of risk at a strategic level across the Council and ability to commission deep dives around specific risks (if required), members were advised that each Council department would also be responsible for maintaining a departmental risk register to ensure that all operational risks were being effectively managed and to ensure that, where required, these were subject to regular and ongoing review to ensure risks could be escalated to the Strategic Risk Report via the Corporate Management Team (CMT) where appropriate.”

Members noted the updates provided in relation to the Action Log of issues identified at previous meetings with specific updates provided in response to the following matters:

(a)  Strategic Risk Report (25 March 25) – members were advised that the next meeting between the Committee Chair, Vice Chair and Scrutiny Chair’s had been arranged for June and would include a review of the Strategic Risk Heat map and approach towards monitoring risk.

(b)  Evaluating the effectiveness of the Audit & Standards Advisory Committee 2024-25 (25 March 25) – the outcome of the self-assessment questionnaire would be presented to the Committee in July 2025 for further review.

In considering the Action Log, members identified a need to ensure that the content was subject to ongoing review in order to update progress and (where available) include due dates for actions.  In response, the Chair advised he would be willing to undertake a more detailed review of the log with the Vice-Chair and officers in order to ensure the actions listed remained relevant and were as clear as possible in term of their allocation and progress.