Issue - meetings

(i)       to note the comments from members relating to recommendations not being completed by the implementation date and to request that Services provide realistic dates for completion for all Internal Audit recommendations;

(ii)      to otherwise note the content of the report and endorse the recommendations for improvement as agreed by the Service.

The Committee had before it a report by the Internal Auditor which presented an audit in relation to Major IT Business Systems which was undertaken to ensure that the risk of Major IT business systems failure was adequately managed.

The report recommended:

that the Committee review, discuss and comment on the issues raised within the report and the attached appendix.

Members raised concerns relating to the implementation dates for some of the recommendations and sought assurance that all of the recommendations would be implemented by the due dates.  Officers advised on the status on the recommendations within the audit report.

Councillor Dunbar sought guidance as to whether the Committee could do anything to support Officers to receive the information when it was requested, wherein the Chief Officer – Governance advised that the Committee were already assisting by scrutinising the reports and that work had been undertaken to identify the outstanding audit recommendations and that these were presented in the outstanding audit recommendations report under each Directorate to highlight the stage the recommendations were at. 

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       to note the comments from members relating to recommendations not being completed by the implementation date and to request that Services provide realistic dates for completion for all Internal Audit recommendations;

(ii)      to otherwise note the content of the report and endorse the recommendations for improvement as agreed by the Service.