Agenda item

Minutes of Previous Meeting

To approve the minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 23rd January 2020.

Minutes:

4.1

RESOLVED: That, the minutes of a meeting of the Committee held on 23rd January 2020 were approved as a correct record.

 

4.2

The Chair of the committee agreed that Councillor Argenzio update the Committee on a recent webinar – ‘CIPFA- Audit in a time of Covid’ that she and the co-opted member Alison Howard recently attended.

 

4.3

The webinar took place on 24th June 2020 and lasted approximately two hours, it was organized by CIPFA and was very topical and well run.  Deadline had shifted for financial deadlines and it was expected that a report would be provided on the impact of Covid 19 in the Annual Governance statement.  The session also looked at the challenges of remote working and how fraud and error checks were going to be dealt with.

 

4.4

It was advised that the Q&A’s would be circulated to the Committee around the webinar and this would be provided as a supplement at the next meeting.

 

 

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