Agenda

 

 

Contact Officer: Michael Flowers, Democratic Services Officer

Tel: 07895 213755

 

E-mail: Michael.Flowers@southandvale.gov.uk

Date: 21st March 2022

Website: www.southoxon.gov.uk  www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk

 

 

 

A MEETING OF THE

 

Joint Audit and Governance Committee

 

WILL BE HELD ON Tuesday 29 March 2022  at 6.30 pm

First Floor Meeting Space, 135 Eastern Avenue, Milton Park, OX14 4SB

 

To watch this virtual meeting, follow this link to the council’s YouTube channel

 

Members of the Committee:

South Oxfordshire District Council

Mocky Khan (Co-Chair)

Peter Dragonetti

George Levy

Jane Murphy

 

Vale of White Horse District Council

Andy Foulsham (Co-Chair)

Amos Duveen

Simon Howell

Mike Pighills

Preferred Substitutes:

South Oxfordshire District Council

David Bartholomew

Sam Casey-Rerhaye

Victoria Haval

Alexandrine Kantor

Axel Macdonald

Jo Robb

Alan Thompson

David Turner

Ian White

Celia Wilson

Vale of White Horse District Council

Nathan Boyd

Andy Cooke

Eric de la Harpe

Alison Jenner

Janet Shelley

Elaine Ware

 

Alternative formats of this publication are available on request.  These include large print, Braille, audio, email and easy read. For this or any other special requirements (such as access facilities) please contact the officer named on this agenda.  Please give as much notice as possible before the meeting.

 

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Apologies for absence 

 

To record apologies for absence and the attendance of substitute members. 

 

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Minutes  (Pages 4 - 10)

 

To adopt and sign as a correct record the Joint Audit and Governance Committee minutes of the meeting held on 25 January 2022.

 

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3

Declarations of interest 

 

To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests and any conflicts of interest in respect of items on the agenda for this meeting.  

 

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4

Urgent business and chair's announcements 

 

To receive notification of any matters which the chair determines should be considered as urgent business and the special circumstances which have made the matters urgent, and to receive any announcements from the chair. 

 

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Public participation 

 

To receive any questions or statements from members of the public that have registered to speak. 

 

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Statement of accounts - 2021/22  (Pages 11 - 48)

 

To receive an update on the progress of the statement of accounts 2021/22 for both councils, and to consider the statement of accounting policies.

 

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Internal audit activity report - fourth quarter 2021/22  (Pages 49 - 52)

 

To consider the internal audit manager’s report.

 

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Internal audit management report - fourth quarter 2021/22  (Pages 53 - 57)

 

To consider the internal audit manager’s report.

 

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Internal audit plan - 2022/23  (Pages 58 - 73)

 

To consider the internal audit manager’s report.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Insourcing of exchequer services and financial management system upgrade  (Pages 74 - 80)

 

To consider the report of the head of finance.

 

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Adoption of Oxfordshire code of conduct for councillors  (Pages 81 - 98)

 

To consider the report of the head of legal and democratic and monitoring officer.

 

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Health and safety progress review 

 

To consider the report (to follow).

 

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Work programme  (Pages 99 - 102)

 

To note the committee’s work programme.

 

 

 

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Head of Legal and Democratic

 

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