To receive Report No. 93/2017 from the Head of Internal Audit.

Report No. 84/2017 was received from the Director for Resources, the purpose of which was to update Members on the progress made in delivering the 2016/17 Annual Audit Plan and key findings arising from audit assignments completed since the last Committee meeting.

Mrs Kelly Epps, Internal Audit Manager, introduced the report and summarised that all audit assignments had been completed for 2016/17, 7 reports remained in draft and would be summarised at the next meeting.  Good progress had also been made on implementing audit actions.

During discussion the following points were noted:

      i.        Clarification was requested regarding the Liquid Logic (Social Care Case Management System) referenced under the summary for Adult Safeguarding Policies Procedures and Compliance.  Mrs Epps confirmed that being new the system was still being developed to allow it to be used in accordance with Rutland processes and procedures and that work was being done to ensure it was used to its full potential;

    ii.        Access to the safeguarding data held within a council network folder had now been revoked;

   iii.        The Local Taxation report had highlighted that there was no senior officer to review cases where recovery action had been suspended, this had been addressed by implementing more robust checks and balances;

   iv.        The system access controls identified in the Local Taxation Report from 2015/16 had been identified as low risk and therefore the outstanding recommendations had been given a lower degree of priority for remedial action; and

    v.        Clarification was requested regarding the reference to payment of local overheads in contractual terms.  It was confirmed that this related to costs that were over and above direct costs of delivery (materials and labour), such as accommodation or travel expenses.

RESOLVED

The Committee NOTED the Internal Audit Update report.