Agenda

Audit and Accounts Committee - Wednesday, 25 January 2023 2.30 pm

Venue: Salford Suite, Salford Civic Centre, Chorley Road, Swinton, M27 5DA.

Contact: Liz Wright

Items
No.	Item
	GUIDANCE FOR FACE TO FACE PUBLIC MEETINGS IN THE SALFORD SUITE
	2pm - 2:30pm FOR MEMBERS ONLY: TRAINING - EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE, INCLUDING BRIEFING ON THE SELF ASSESSMENT EXERCISE - DAVID SMITH/SIMON BLECKLY
1.	Apologies for Absence
2.	The Committee is asked to consider whether it agrees to the inclusion of the items listed in Parts 1 and 2 of the agenda.
3.	Declarations of Interest.
4.	To approve, as a correct record, the minutes of the previous meeting. PDF 400 KB Minutes of the meeting held on 26.10.22.
5.	Matters Arising
6.	Private meeting for the committee with Internal Auditors (Head of Internal Audit - Simon Bleckly)
7.	Half Year 2022-23 Strategic Risk Register Update (Joint Head of Planning & Performance - Emma Reid; Principal Performance Officer - Bev Hinks) PDF 508 KB Report of the Assistant Director, Strategy and Performance. Additional documents: Half-year 2022-23 Strategic Risk update - AAC 25 January 2023 , item 7. PDF 357 KB
8.	Update on the provisional budget settlement (Verbal Update) - Chief Finance Officer (Joanne Hardman)
9.	Internal Audit Progress Report - Deputy Head of Internal Audit (David Smith) PDF 469 KB Report of the Chief Finance Officer and The Head of Internal Audit.
10.	External Auditors Updates - Mazars PDF 503 KB
10a	Work programme 2022/23 PDF 302 KB
10b	Membership
11.	URGENT BUSINESS - PART 1
12.	EXCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC The officers consider that the following items contain exempt information as provided for in the Local Government Access to Information Act and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. Members are recommended to agree the necessary resolutions excluding the public from the meeting during consideration of this item. At the time this agenda is published no representations have been that this part of the meeting should be open to the public.
13.	URGENT BUSINESS - PART 2
14.	Date of Next Meeting Wednesday 22^nd March 2023 at 2pm in The Salford Suite, Civic Centre, Chorley Road, Swinton, M27 5DA.