Issue - meetings

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Officers had advised that the Accounts and Audit Regulations (England) 2011 required the Council to conduct, at least annually, a review of the effectiveness of its system of internal control and to approve an Annual Governance Statement, prepared in accordance with proper practices in relation to internal control.

The Annual Governance Statement had been prepared in accordance with ‘Delivering Good Governance in Local Government: Framework’ produced jointly by CIPFA and SOLACE in 2012, which had been given ‘proper practices’ status by the Department for Communities and Local Government.

The 2014/15 statement had updated the Committee on the significant governance issues raised in the 2013/14 Annual Governance Statement and the status of those issues and of new issues arising as part of the 2014/15 Annual Governance Statement.

The Committee had agreed the draft version of the 2014/15 Annual Governance Statement.