Agenda

To receive any apologies for absence.

To receive any questions from members of the public and replies thereto.

To record any interests on agenda matters.

To consider whether to approve the minutes as a correct record of the meeting held on 30^th September 2025.

To receive any announcements that the Chairman may wish to make.

To receive a report from Corporate Performance & Improvement Manager and the Head of People, Performance & Waste providing Members with a quarterly update on the Corporate Risk Register.

To receive a report from the Head of People, Governance & Waste and the Corporate Performance and Improvement Manager providing an update on progress to complete audit actions.

To receive the External Auditors Completion Report for the year ended 31 March 2025 from Bishop Fleming. To also receive the Letter of Representation.

To receive a report from the Deputy Chief Executive (S151) presenting the proposed final version of the 2024/25 Statement of Accounts to Members, highlighting any areas which have been amended since the draft accounts were published on the website, presented for external audit and considered by Audit Committee in June 2025.

This includes:

2024/25 Statement of Accounts (updated)

2024/25 Annual Governance Statement

To receive the External Auditor’s Annual Report for the year ending 31 March 2025 from Bishop Fleming.

To receive the Internal Audit Progress Report from the Devon Assurance partnership.

Discussion with regard to the next item, may require the Committee to pass the following resolution to exclude the press and public having reflected on Article 12 12.02(d) (a presumption in favour of openness) of the Constitution. This decision may be required because consideration of this matter in public may disclose information falling within one of the descriptions of exempt information in Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972. The Committee will need to decide whether, in all circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption, outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Recommended that under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 the public be excluded from the next item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 respectively of part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, namely information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

To receive the full Patch Management Audit Report from Devon Assurance Partnership. Any detailed discussion of this Report will need to be held in Part II.

Members are asked to note that the following items are already identified in the work programme for the next meeting:

·       Corporate Recovery Policy

·       Corporate Risk Report

·       Risk Management Policy

·       Anti-Fraud & Corruption and Anti-Money Laundering Policies

·       DAP Four Year Strategic Audit Plan and Work Programme

·       DAP Internal Audit Charter & Strategy

·       DAP Internal Audit Progress Report

·       Bishop Fleming External Auditors Progress Report

·       Chair’s Annual Report for 2025/2026

Note: This item is limited to 10 minutes. There should be no discussion on the items raised.