Decision details

The Director of Resources introduced the report which had incorporated a new Standards regime for internal audit in the UK, the ‘Public Sector Internal Audit Standards’.  An important action under the Compliance and Quality Improvement Plan (pages 42-43) was that External Assessments must be conducted at least once every five years from a qualified independent assessor from outside the organisation.  The Head of Internal Audit would be bringing a report to committee setting out how this new arrangement could work and noted Cllr Cantrill’s comment that it should be within three years, not five.

Resolved-

To note the Review of the Effectiveness of Internal Audit 2012/13