Issue - meetings

The Director of Finance submits a report to the Audit and Risk Committee for approval of the Council’s Annual Governance Statement 2014-2015. The Committee is recommended to approve the report.

The Director of Finance submitted a report which sought the approval of the Audit and Risk Committee for the Council’s Annual Governance Statement 2014-15, which the Council was required to publish as part of its financial accounts reporting. The Committee was recommended to approve the Council’s Annual Governance Statement 2014-15.

The Committee was informed the statement should assure the people of Leicester that the Council operated in accordance with the law and had due regard to proper standards of behaviour and that it safeguarded the public purse.

Officers reported that the Annual Governance Statement and the supporting Director’s Certification were produced with the involvement and contribution of all directors, and prepared in accordance with the Council’s governance framework. Members’ attention was drawn to items in Appendix A, page 53-57 identified as areas of significant risk and action taken in response to items raised in the Annual Governance Statement for 2013-14. An additional item (page 58) in response to the recent OFSTED investigation and a summary of action being taken had been included in the statement.

The Chair thanked the officer for the report.

RESOLVED:

that the Council’s Annual Governance Statement for 2014-15 be approved.