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Agenda item

SO24 / Waiving of Contract SO's: Quarterly report reviewing Cabinet / CM urgent decisions or waiving Contract SO's (Quarter 1,April to June 2020)

Minutes:

The Chief Internal Auditor explained that Cabinet Members could put through reports urgently and the purpose of this report was to provide assurances to members that these decisions had been fully justified and were therefore appropriate.

 

There are two reports relating to School Admissions and NNDR have been identified as being urgent through the democratic process in quarter 1 of 2020/21.  The NNDR report was in relation to Welsh Government’s decision on business rates due to Covid -19.

 

The Chief Internal Auditor stated that they viewed the reports were reviewed to make sure that there was an appropriate justification given to the decision making for the urgency and was documented within the report. Often urgent decisions were taken this way as if there was no time for consultation with other members of the Council and therefore there would need to be an appropriate justification for doing so.

 

The Chief Internal Auditor requested members to view the table on page 77 and in particular, the Chief Internal Auditor comments on the right hand side. The first report on the table was in relation to School Admissions in relation to the change of catchment. It was an urgent decision but there was no justification for the need of urgency stated in the report. Normally there were timelines would be provided but this was not the case with this report. However, the report had gone out to stakeholders and all members as it related to a school admissions issue. Although there was no justification provided, the Chief Internal Auditor explained that they he deemed the decision as satisfactory as members saw the original report and had an opportunity to commented on it. Therefore they felt no call-in was needed.

 

The Chair agreed that this was satisfactory and there were no comments from any members of the committee.

 

In relation to the NNDR report, the Chief Internal Auditor stated that there was appropriate justification for this clearly stated in the report, guidance from Welsh Government came through on the 18th March 2020 and the scheme had to be implemented as close to 1st April 2020 as possible. Papers were also attached for members to look at in detail. The Chief Internal Auditor also deemed the report as justified and no call-in was required.

 

 

 

Agreed:

 

The Audit Committee were satisfied with the content of the report.

 

 

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