Meeting Details

Meeting Summary

Committee:

Audit Committee

Date/Time:

12 Dec 2017 - 11:00 to 13:00

Status:

Occurred

Venue:

Council Chambers

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Attendance
Visitors
Declarations of Interests

Documents

Agenda Contents (75Kb)
Agenda Document Pack - Audit Committee - 12/12/2017 11:00:00 (5703Kb)

Agenda

Welcome Introduction And Apologies

Order Of Business

Including notice of new business submitted as urgent for consideration at the end of the meeting.

Declaration Of Interest

Members should declare any financial and non-financial interests they have in the items of business for consideration, identifying the relevant agenda item and the nature of their interest.

Minutes Of Previous Meeting

4.1

Minute of Meeting of the Audit Committee of 26 September 2017 (92Kb)

Public Reports

5.1

Shared Chief Auditor post between Midlothian & Scottish Borders Councils – Report by Chief Executive (103Kb)

5.2

Risk Management – Report by Risk Manager (135Kb)

Appendix 1 Strategic Risk Profile Q2 17_18 (422Kb)

5.3

National Fraud Initiative update 201617 – Report by Internal Audit Manager (120Kb)

5.4

Health and Safety - Report by Internal Audit Manager (290Kb)

5.5

Monitoring of External Care Homes - Report by Internal Audit Manag (172Kb)

5.6

Tyne Esk LEADER - Report by Internal Audit Manager (177Kb)

5.7

Follow up review of Audit Recommendations – Report by Internal Audit Manager (138Kb)

5.8

Internal Audit Recommendations Progress Report – Report by Internal Audit Manager (66Kb)

Appendix 1 - Internal Audit Recommendations (194Kb)

5.9

Financial Monitoring 2017_18 and Financial Strategy 201819 to 202122 - Report by Director Resources (52Kb)

5.10

Audit Scotland Report Local government in Scotland Financial Overview 2016_17 (125Kb)

5.11

Equal Pay in Scottish Councils - Report by Head of Finance and Integrated Service Support (113Kb)

Equal_pay_in_Scottish_councils (3279Kb)

Private Reports

6.1 Internal Audit Report - Stores – Report by Internal Audit Manager

8. The amount of any expenditure proposed to be incurred by the authority under any particular contract for the acquisition of property or the supply of goods or services.

Additional Meeting Documents

Local Code of Corporate Governance 2017 (64Kb)
1. Code of Corporate Governance (Revised 2017) v0.4 (159Kb)
Audio Recording Audit Committee 12 December 2017 Public 2 (4658Kb)
Audio Recording Audit Committee 12 December 2017 Public 1 (31857Kb)

Attendance

Attended - Committee Members

Name
Councillor Kenneth Baird
Mr Peter de Vink
Councillor Andrew Hardie
Councillor Derek Milligan
Councillor Jim Muirhead
Councillor Kelly Parry
Mr Mike Ramsay
Councillor Peter Smaill

Attended - Other Members

Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.

Apologies

Name	Reason for Sending Apology
No apology information has been recorded for the meeting.

Absent

Name	Reason for Absence
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member Name	Item Ref.	Details	Nature of Declaration	Action
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

Visitors

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

Kenneth Lawrie, Chief Executive
Stephen Reid, Ernst &Young LLP
John Blair, Director Resources
Ricky Moffat, Head of Commercial Operations
Alan Turpie, Monitoring Officer
Suzanne Ross, Solicitor
Gary Fairley, Head of Finance and Integrated Service Support
Elaine Greaves, Audit Manager
Jill Stacey, Scottish Borders
Ian Johnson, Head of Communities and Economy
Alison White, Head of Adult Services
Heather Mohieddeen, Senior Auditor
Amber Ahmed, Auditor
James Polanski, Auditor

___ Members of public expressed a desire to address the meeting.