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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
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28
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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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more>>
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
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