Audit & Corporate Services Review Committee 14/05/25

Meeting Date : 14/05/2025

10am, Virtual Meeting

1. To receive apologies for absence

2. To receive any disclosures of interest by Members or Officers in respect of any item of business

3. To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on the 19 February 2025

4. To note the Action Log from the previous meeting

5. To receive the report of the meeting of the Health and Safety Group held on 8 April 2025

6. To consider the following reports:

09/25 Annual Audit Summary 2024
The Auditor General for Wales’ Annual Audit summary shows the work completed since the last Annual Audit Summary, which was issued in February 2024.

10/25 Audit Wales Audit Plan 2025
To receive the Audit Plan for 2025 from the Audit Wales.

11/25 Audit Wales Report on Promoting Access to the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
The report outlines the views of Audit Wales following work undertaken to assess how the Authority promotes access to the National Park.

12/25 Internal Audit Reports
These reports provide an update of progress towards delivery of the 2024/25 Internal Audit Annual Plan, and a summary of the work undertaken to date, together with reports completed since the last meeting.

13/25 Action Log for External Performance Audit and Internal Audit (Ending 31 March 2024)
The report assists with monitoring of actions agreed from Audit reviews.

14/25 Well-being Objectives Performance Report
The report provides progress against Priority Indicators/ Projects/ Work Programmes for the Period Ending 31st March 2025

15/25 Assurance Monitoring Report – Compliance, Public and Statutory Duties and Corporate Improvement
This report acts as one element of the Authority’s risk management approach and supports officers and Members in monitoring, assessing and responding to compliance and corporate improvement areas of work.

16/25 Health, Safety & Wellbeing Quarterly Report
The report provides a brief update on Health & Safety incidents January – April 2025 and other H&S matters that may be of interest to the Committee.

7. To consider whether the public should be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following item due to the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 14 of Part 4 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972

8.  To consider the following report:

17/25 Changes to the Authority’s Risk Management process
The report provides revised versions of documents relating to Risk Management and Members are asked for comments, prior to providing final versions for approval to the Authority.

9.   To receive a verbal update regarding progress on cyber security internal audit review

10. To delegate any issues of concern to the Continuous Improvement Group for consideration