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Subject: Governance News 14 August

 

 

 

Better Governance Forum
Newsletter

14 August 2020

 

    

Events

Our Webinars

 

Councillors' Guide to Understanding your Council's Financial Reporting Requirements

8 September

 

 

On the Agenda - Health, Safety & Wellbeing

Free webinar

8 September

 

 

Introduction to Police Audit Committees

Webinar delivered over two mornings

10 and 11 September

 

 

Introduction to the Knowledge and Skills of the Audit Committee

Webinar delivered over two mornings

16 and 17 September

28 and 29 September

 

 

 

BGF Home

News of the week

 

Lack of adequate governance arrangements and “institutional blindness” led to council energy company losing over £34 million, report finds

 

A public interest report by Grant Thornton has found that Nottingham City Council made a number of failings in the creation and management of its energy company including inadequate governance arrangements and a failure to understand the risks associated with entering the energy business.

 

Local Government Lawyer

 

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News Roundup

 

Audit

 

PSAA publishes the outcome of its market engagement exercise

The exercise sought views from all registered firms to inform PSAA’s consideration of whether a further procurement would be appropriate.

Public Sector Audit Appointments

 

5 Things Internal Audit Must Tell the Audit Committee Now!

Blog post from Richard Chambers.

Internal Auditor Online

 

Governance

 

More systemic problems seen in Ombudsman complaints

Increasing systemic problems seen in people’s complaints has led to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman making more wider service improvement recommendations to councils in 2019-20 than ever before.

Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman

 

Do exceptional times allow for exceptional measures?

Decisions which deviate from the rules, even in times of crisis, take an enormous risk in breaking faith with public trust and must, inevitably, be subject to greater retrospective scrutiny and accountability.

Committee on Standards in Public Life

 

Maintaining ethical standards in public life

CIPFA’s support for steps to improve ethical standards in public life.

Public Finance

 

Risk

 

Council cyber-attack cost estimated at more than £10 million

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council have said that a cyber-attack that occurred early this year will cost the local authority an estimated £10.144 million.

Local Government Lawyer

 

Public services 'not ready for the pandemic'

Austerity has left public services unfit to respond to the crisis caused by Covid-19, a report from CIPFA and the Institute for Government has argued.

Public Finance

 

Pandemic highlights ‘tragic impact’ of delayed social care reform

MPs have demanded the government sets out plans to end years of treating social care as the NHS’s “poor relation” within three months.

Public Finance

 

Counter Fraud

 

Public service leaders should give a higher priority to tackling fraud in Wales

The report identifies seven key themes that all public bodies need to focus on in raising their game to tackle fraud more effectively.

Wales Audit Office

 

Anti-corruption group report warns on risks to local government planning process

Transparency International has said research into what could undermine openness in the planning process – and what local authorities were doing to stop this – had revealed some examples of good practice, but that "generally the results make for a worrying read”.

Local Government Lawyer

 

Uploading data to the National Fraud Initiative

New guide, NFI Protect yourself online added.

Cabinet Office

 

Information Governance

 

ICO launches guidance on AI and data protection

The relationship between AI and data protection as the ICO publishes new AI guidance.

Information Commissioner’s Office

 

 

CIPFA News and Training

CIPFA NED Certificate

 

A three-day course focused on the roles and responsibilities of non-executive directors (NEDs), delivered in partnership with the Non-Executive Directors' Association (NEDA).

 

More details and information webinar

 

 

 

 

Publications

Better Governance Forum Advisors

Diana Melville
+44 (0)1722 349398
diana.Melville@cipfa.org

 

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