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Internal Audit Partnership Expansion

 

 

Meeting: 26/10/2010 - Cabinet (Item 10)

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Report of the Cabinet Member Corporate Services

Decision:

RESOLVED THAT:

  1. The inclusion of West Oxfordshire into the current Cotswold and Cheltenham Shared Internal Audit service be approved

  2. Authority be delegated to the Assistant Chief Executive in consultation with the Leader and Chief Finance Officer, to revise the existing Memorandum of Understanding as approved by the Borough Solicitor  to be effective from 1 November 2010.

  3. Proposals for the development of a full transfer framework be brought back with a view that a s101 agency agreement is in place by November 2011.

Minutes:

The Cabinet Member Corporate Services introduced the report. In 2009 the council agreed to establish an audit partnership with Cotswold District Council which would deliver savings for both councils and more importantly a resilient audit service. He said that the audit partnership between Cheltenham and Cotswold had been working very well.  

Work had been ongoing over the last few months to develop a business case for extending the partnership to West Oxfordshire District Council. The proposal was to initially work with an enhanced version of the Cheltenham & Cotswold Audit Partnership Memorandum of Understanding, with a view that over the next twelve months work would be ongoing to develop a full transfer framework which best meets the aims and objectives of the partnership, which would need to be approved by Council. Although the savings were relatively modest he still considered it was an excellent way to proceed and one which benefit the people of Cheltenham.

He advised that the Audit Committee had considered the proposal and their comments were included in the report.

 

RESOLVED THAT:

  1. The inclusion of West Oxfordshire into the current Cotswold and Cheltenham Shared Internal Audit service be approved

  2. Authority be delegated to the Assistant Chief Executive in consultation with the Leader and Chief Finance Officer, to revise the existing Memorandum of Understanding as approved by the Borough Solicitor to be effective from 1 November 2010.

  3. Proposals for the development of a full transfer framework be brought back with a view that a s101 agency agreement is in place by November 2011.