Audit Committee Annual/External Reviews
Dear Charnwood Borough Council,
CIPFA Guidance on Local Authority Audit Committees states that “Recommended practice is for audit committees to review and assess themselves annually or to seek an external review.”
We realise that the committee with audit related responsibilities are not always called ‘Audit Committee’. Please can you confirm what the title of this committee is within your local authority and answer the following questions in relation to that committee.
a) Internal Annual Review of Audit Committee
For each of the last five financial years please provide me with a copy of the audit committee’s annual review of its work. Please state the date the review was published and how it was made public at the time.
b) External Review of Audit Committee
Please confirm the most recent date that an external review of the audit committee was sought, who undertook that review, when and where it was published and provide a copy of the review.
Yours faithfully,
Megan Waugh
Research for Action
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Dear Megan
FOI Request (Ref: TOP3Z6O9)
I am writing in response to your request for information which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the Act”).
CIPFA Guidance on Local Authority Audit Committees states that “Recommended practice is for audit committees to review and assess themselves annually or to seek an external review.” –
- The CIPFA Position Statement: Audit Committees in Local Authorities and Police 2022 states “To discharge its responsibilities effectively, the committee should………. report annually on how the committee has complied with the position statement, discharged its responsibilities, and include an assessment of its performance. The report should be available to the public.”
We realise that the committee with audit related responsibilities are not always called ‘Audit Committee’. Please can you confirm what the title of this committee is within your local authority and answer the following questions in relation to that committee.
- Audit Committee
a) Internal Annual Review of Audit Committee For each of the last five financial years please provide me with a copy of the audit committee’s annual review of its work. Please state the date the review was published and how it was made public at the time.
- It is intended that the report for the 2023/24 year will approved at the Audit & Governance Committee meeting in April 2024 and reported to full Council in June 2024. There have been no previous reports published.
b) External Review of Audit Committee Please confirm the most recent date that an external review of the audit committee was sought, who undertook that review, when and where it was published and provide a copy of the review.
- There is no requirement for an external review of audit committees.
- Reports are published on our website at: https://charnwood.moderngov.co.uk/ieList...
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