To provide Members with an update on performance against the corporate plan and local service targets for 2016-17 as well as providing an update on the key business risks.
Minutes:
The Committee had before it a report * providing an update on performance against the corporate plan and local service targets for 2016-17 as well as providing an update on the key business risks.
The Audit Team Leader outlined the contents of the report.
Discussion took place regarding:
· The use of agency staff at Waste Management to cover for sickness and holiday absence;
· Policy for dealing with gas safety checks and the fact that an external meter could be fitted to properties, if required, where tenants did not allow access for checks;
· The risk regarding disability and issues if an officer should decide to hide a disability;
· The asbestos register;
· The increasing risk to IT security and a Member briefing on the subject, which had been poorly attended;
· Homelessness and the increased risk.
· The cost of dealing with homelessness, what that funding is spent on and what alternative provision might be possible to improve the situation.
It was RESOLVED that a report be prepared for the next meeting of the Committee regarding homelessness.
(Proposed by the Chairman)
Note: - Report * previously circulated and attached to Minutes.
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