Agenda

Corporate Governance Committee - Monday, 20 May 2024 10.00 am

Venue: Sparkenhoe Committee Room, County Hall, Glenfield

Contact: Mrs J. Twomey (tel: 0116 305 2583) Email: joanne.twomey@leics.gov.uk

Items
No.	Item
1.	Election of Chairman
2.	Election of Vice Chairman
3.	Minutes of the meeting held on 26 January 2024. PDF 108 KB
4.	Question Time.
5.	Questions asked by members under Standing Order 7(3) and 7(5).
6.	To advise of any other items which the Chairman has decided to take as urgent elsewhere on the agenda.
7.	Declarations of interest in respect of items on the agenda.
8.	Presentation of Petitions under Standing Order 35.
9.	External Audit of the 2022/23 Statement of Accounts, Annual Governance Statement and Pension Fund Accounts - Updated. PDF 117 KB Additional documents: External Audit 2022-23 Statement of Accounts (Main paper) , item 9. PDF 142 KB Appendix A - LCC Audit Findings Report , item 9. PDF 8 MB Appendix B - LPF Audit Findings Report , item 9. PDF 4 MB Appendix C - LCC Letter of Rep , item 9. PDF 102 KB Appendix D - LPF Letter of Rep , item 9. PDF 83 KB Appendix E - AGS , item 9. PDF 380 KB
10.	External Audit Plan and Risk Assessment 2023/24 PDF 139 KB Additional documents: Appendix A - LCC External Audit Plan 2023-24 , item 10. PDF 7 MB Appendix B - Pension Fund External Audit Plan 2023-24 , item 10. PDF 5 MB Appendix C - LCC and LPF Informing the audit risk assessment , item 10. PDF 338 KB
11.	East Midlands Shared Service - Internal Audit Work Undertaken by Nottingham City Council PDF 163 KB Mr John Slater, Group Assurance & Audit Governance Manager at Nottingham City Council will join the meeting for this item. Additional documents: Appendix - NCC Head of Audit Update, including 2022-23 Opinion and progress on 23-24 audits , item 11. PDF 202 KB
12.	Risk Management Update PDF 242 KB A presentation on Corporate Risk 7.7 (If the current demand for Education Health Care (EHC) Needs Assessment and updating of EHC Plans after annual review exceeds available capacity of staff within SEND Services (Particularly educational psychology and SEN Officer) then this leaves the Council vulnerable to complaints of maladministration with regards to statutory timescales. The situation is worsened by a lack of specialist placements which means that children with complex needs may not be placed in a timely way and hence may not receive the support to which they are entitled through their EHC Plan) will be provided as part of this item. Additional documents: Appendix - Corporate Risk Register Update (20 May 2024) , item 12. PDF 1019 KB
13.	Resilience and Business Continuity Annual Update PDF 163 KB Additional documents: Presentation - Resilience and Business Continuity , item 13. PDF 315 KB
14.	Clinical Governance Overview PDF 1 MB As requsted by the Committee at its meeting in November 2023, a presentation will be provided for this item. A copy of the presentation slides is attached.
15.	Annual Treasury Management Report 2023/24 PDF 211 KB Additional documents: Appendix A - Economic Update from Link , item 15. PDF 123 KB Appendix B - Prudential and Treasury Indicators , item 15. PDF 58 KB Appendix C - Local Authority Lending Checklist , item 15. PDF 63 KB Appendix D - Link Benchmarking Report December 2023 , item 15. PDF 395 KB
16.	Revised Members' Planning Code of Good Practice PDF 155 KB Additional documents: Appendix - Part5A1 Members Planning Code 2024 , item 16. PDF 245 KB
17.	Dispensation for Elected Members PDF 137 KB
18.	Provisional Draft Annual Governance Statement 2023-24 PDF 169 KB Additional documents: Appendix A - Provisional Draft Annual Governance Statement 2023-24 , item 18. PDF 397 KB
19.	Internal Audit Service Annual Report 2023-24 PDF 122 KB Additional documents: Appendix - Internal Audit Service Annual Report 2023-24 , item 19. PDF 220 KB Annex 1 - HoIAS annual opinion 2023-24 , item 19. PDF 236 KB Annex 2 - Summary of Internal Audit Service work supporting the HoIAS opinion 2023-24 , item 19. PDF 399 KB
20.	Internal Audit Service Progress Against 2023-24 Plan & Revised Annual Planning Methodology PDF 233 KB Additional documents: Appendix 1 - Summary of Internal Audit Service work undertaken between 13 January and 19 April 2024 , item 20. PDF 297 KB Appendix 2 - High Importance Recommendations at 19 April 2024 , item 20. PDF 87 KB Appendix 3 - Extract from County Planning model , item 20. PDF 537 KB
21.	Independent External Quality Assessment - Review of the Council's Internal Audit Service PDF 214 KB Additional documents: Appendix 1 - Benchmarking Sector Analysis , item 21. PDF 98 KB Appendix 2 - Industry Analysis , item 21. PDF 225 KB Appendix 3 - Final report - External Quality Assessment , item 21. PDF 580 KB
22.	Annual Report of the Corporate Governance Committee 2023-24 PDF 107 KB Additional documents: CGC Annual Report 2023-24 final , item 22. PDF 362 KB Appendix - Self-assessment of good practice , item 22. PDF 468 KB
23.	Date of next meeting. The next meeting of the Corporate Governance Committee is scheduled to take place on Monday, 16 September 2024 at 10.00am.
24.	Any other items which the Chairman has decided to take as urgent.