Issue - meetings

Annual Governance Statement

Meeting: 25/09/2017 - Corporate Governance, Audit and Standards Committee (Item 16)

16 Annual Governance Statement pdf icon PDF 61 KB

To consider the Solicitor to the Council’s Report No. LEG1713 (copy attached), which seeks approval of the Council’s Annual Governance Statement 2016/17 in light of the adoption by Council on 27th July 2017 of a revised Code of Corporate Governance.  The Report also seeks approval for the publication of the Governance Statement alongside the Council’s Statement of Accounts.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered the Solicitor to the Council's Report No. LEG1713 which sought approval of the Council's Annual Governance Statement 2016/17 in light of the adoption by the full Council on 27th July 2017 of a revised Code of Corporate Governance.   The Report also sought approval to publish the Annual Governance Statement alongside the Council's Statement of Accounts, which would be considered later at the meeting.

 

The Committee had considered a draft of the Annual Governance Statement at the meeting on 26th June, 2017, based on a draft Code of Corporate Governance which, at the time, had yet to be adopted by the full Council.  This had subsequently taken place on 27th July 2017.   The Committee was advised that the Annual Governance Statement had been further amended after the Corporate Leadership Team had undertaken a review of the significant governance issues to be addressed in the forthcoming year.  The principal areas of risk were now set out in the Governance Statement under 'Risk Management, the General Data Protection Regulation and the Risk of Non-delivery of Key Projects'.  The Review of Policy and Review Panels, the Review of Partnership Working and other items identified in the previous version would be undertaken within service areas but were not considered to be significant governance issues.  The revised Annual Governance Statement was set out in full as an Appendix to the Report.   The Leader of the Council and the Chief Executive were both required to sign the Annual Governance Statement.

 

RESOLVED:  That the Annual Governance Statement 2016/17, as set out in the Solicitor to the Council's Report No. LEG1713, be approved for publication with the Council's Statement of Accounts.