To receive details of any councillor nominated to attend the meeting in place of a member of the committee.

To receive declarations of interest in respect of items on the agenda.

To approve and sign the minutes of the meeting held on 26 March 2024

Deadline for receipt of questions is 5pm on Wednesday 5 June 2024.

Questions must be submitted to councillorservices@herefordshire.gov.uk.  Questions sent to any other address may not be accepted.

Accepted questions and the response to them will be published as a supplement to the agenda papers prior to the meeting. Further information and guidance is available at www.herefordshire.gov.uk/getinvolved

To receive any questions from members of the public.

To receive any questions from councillors.

To appoint to the membership of the Standards Panel.

To provide the committee with the draft annual report covering the work undertaken by the Committee, during the 2023/24 municipal year.

To seek the view of the committee as to whether the draft Annual Governance Statement (AGS) for 2023/24 properly reflects the internal control environment the council is operating in and the appropriateness of actions identified to improve governance arrangements. 

To note the draft, unaudited Statement of Accounts for 2023/24. 

To update members on the progress of internal audit work and to bring to their attention any key internal control issues arising from work recently completed.

To assure the committee that action is being taken on risk related issues identified by internal audit. This is monitored through acceptance of agreed management actions and progress updates in implementing the action plans. In addition, occasions where audit actions not accepted by management are documented if it is considered that the course of action proposed by management presents a risk in terms of the effectiveness of or compliance with the council’s control environment. 

The purpose of this report is to enable the committee to provide independent assurance on the adequacy of the risk management framework together with the internal control of the financial reporting and annual governance processes by considering the head of internal audit’s annual report and opinion, and the level of assurance it gives over the council’s corporate governance arrangements. 

To consider the work programme for the committee.

To agree dates of future meetings.  The following dates are suggested:

Tuesday, 23 July 2024 2pm

Tuesday, 24 September 2024 2pm

Tuesday, 29 October 2024 2pm

Tuesday, 28 January 2025 2pm

Tuesday, 25 March 2025 2pm

Tuesday, 10 June 2025 2pm