Agenda
North Lanarkshire Council · 16 February 2023
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AGENDA (1) Declarations of Interest in terms of the Ethical Standards in Public Life Etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (2) Remit from the Adult Care and Social Work Committee of 15 November 22 - Quality Assurance Annual Report (page 7 - 28) Submit report by the Head of Planning, Performance & Quality Assurance updating the Panel on the Quality Assurance activity over the annual period from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 (copy herewith) AUDIT RELATED ITEMS (3) Audit and Risk-Related Items: Action Log (page 29 - 32) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Audit and Risk allowing the Panel to track implementation of requests and recommendations made by the Panel in respect of audit and risk-related items in the previous 18 months (copy herewith) (4) Internal Audit Progress Report (page 33 - 96) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Audit and Risk (1) providing an overview of Internal Audit activity, and (2) reporting the results of Internal Audit outputs finalised since the last update to the Panel in November 2022 (copy herewith) (5) Internal Audit: Follow-Up of Actions previously agreed by Management in response to Audit Recommendations (page 97 - 114) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Audit and Risk updating the Panel on the results of Internal Audit's follow-up work reviewing the extent to which Management have implemented actions previously committed to in response to previous Internal and External Audit recommendations (copy herewith) (6) Audit Scotland - Audit Strategy Letter 2022-23 (page 115 - 120) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Audit and Risk providing the Panel with information from Audit Scotland, the Council's appointed external auditors, on the status of their 2022-23 audit planning (copy herewith) (7) Changes to the Code of Practice on Local Authority Accounting 2022/23 (page 121 - 126) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Finance highlighting any significant changes to the Code or guidance in the Technical Bulletins which may impact on the accounting requirements and presentation of the Council's 2022/23 Annual Accounts (copy herewith) RISK MANAGEMENT RELATED ITEMS (8) Risk Management Update (page 127 - 136) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Audit and Risk providing a brief update on key risk management developments since the most recent update report to the Panel in November 2022 (copy herewith)
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2 (9) National Care Service Proposals (page 137 - 146) Submit report by the Chief Social Work Officer (1) focusing on a new risk within the Council's Corporate Risk Register relating to proposals for a National Care Service as set out within the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill introduced to the Scottish Parliament on 21 June 22, and (2) providing an overview of the current risk environment as set out and assessed within the draft Deep Dive document attached at Appendix 1 to the report (copy herewith) SCRUTINY RELATED ITEMS (10) New Approach to Auditing Best Value (page 147 - 156) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Business and Digital providing the Panel with an overview of the new national approach to auditing Best Value, based on information available at the current time (copy herewith) (11) Annual Scrutiny Programme (page 157 - 168) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Business and Digital setting out the annual programme for the scrutiny function of the Audit and Scrutiny Panel (copy herewith) (12) Strategic Performance Framework - Performance Reporting Schedule 2023 to 2024 (page 169 - 184) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Business and Digital (1) updating the Performance Reporting Schedule initially established in 2021, and (2) setting out the service specific, statutory, corporate, and Strategic Performance Framework performance reporting arrangements for 2023 to 2024 (copy herewith) (13) PoW:075.1 - Arm's Length External Organisations: Governance and Risk Management Oversight and Assurance Report 2022/23 (page 185 - 208) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Business and Digital providing the six monthly overview of ALEOs' governance, financial governance, risk management and service delivery arrangement (copy herewith) (14) Cyber Security Assessment - Supplementary Report (page 209 - 220) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Business and Digital (1) supplementing Internal Audit's findings and recommendations - reported separately within the Internal Audit Progress Report - through providing the Panel with additional details of cyber security activities performed by the Council, and (2) providing the Panel with a high-level overview of the Cyber Security Management principles adopted by the Council (copy herewith) (15) Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) - Information Governance - Assurance and Performance Report 2021-2022 (page 221 - 248) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Business and Digital providing assurances that information risks are being effectively managed to ultimately enable the Council to comply with legislative requirements and good practice (copy herewith)
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3 Reports called for at the previous Audit and Scrutiny Panel Meeting of 24 November 2022 (16) PO003.2: DigitalNL Quantifying and Reporting on Non-Financial Benefits (page 249 - 264) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Business and Digital (1) focussing on the recommendation made within the most recent internal audit report for DigitalNL completed in November 2021 with regard to the identification, calculation, monitoring and tracking of non- financial benefits, and (2) highlighting a number of next steps to be developed in order to finalise and fully deploy the non-financial benefits element of the Benefits Tracker (copy herewith) (17) Update on the Implementation of the Refreshed Project Management Framework (page 265 - 285) Submit report by the Chief Officer of Business and Digital focussing on two recommendations arising from the governance of capital projects and managing strategic change audits which were considered as “not yet complete”, and in doing so it specifically provides information on reporting to all stakeholders on key projects, and the arrangements for monitoring compliance with the project management framework through a review programme (copy herewith)