Agenda and minutes

RESOLVED that the Minutes of the meeting held on 1 March 2006 are correctly recorded and that they be signed by the Chairman.

RESOLVED that the report be noted.

(1)       A summary by PriceWaterhouseCoopers of the results of their 2005/06 audit of Kent County Council’s financial statements was circulated to Members of the Committee before the meeting.

(2)       The Head of Financial Management informed the Committee of two changes to the draft statement of accounts:-

(a)       the figure in the first paragraph of page 3 to read £261.408;  and

(b)       the figure on page 24 for long term investments on 31 March 2005 to read 24,000 giving a consequent revised figure of 215,326 for the total long-term assets on 31 March 2005 on the same page.

(3)       RESOLVED that:-

(a)       the Statement of Accounts for 2005-06 be approved as amended in (2) above subject to the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and opposition Group Spokesman being informed of any changes which may be made to the Accounts and being given a copy of the final accounts following completion of the external audit;  and

(b)       the Finance Staff in all Directorates be congratulated for their work in producing the Statement of Accounts with exemplary speed.

RESOLVED that the report be noted.

RESOLVED that:-

(a)       the 2006/07 Joint Audit and Inspection Plan and the audit fee for 2006/07 be approved;

(b)       the Director of Finance be requested to note the Committee’s wish for the Business Risks associated with Schools Cluster arrangements to be audited;  and

(c)        a further report be made to the next meeting of the Committee enabling it to identify which other areas of the Authority’s work it would wish to see audited

RESOLVED that the amendments to Sections 4.6 and 5 of the Code of practice for Contracts and Tenders be approved together with the parallel amendments to Appendix 5 of the Council’s Constitution.

RESOLVED that the Internal Audit Annual Report 2005/06 be received.

RESOLVED that the report be noted.

(1)       The Chief Internal Auditor provided brief details of all irregularities cases completed during the period February 2006 to May 2006.

(2)       RESOLVED that the report be noted.

(1)       The Chief Internal Auditor reported on the outcome of an Internal Audit review on recruitment checks undertaken on Social Services staff, agency staff and volunteers working with children.

(2)       RESOLVED that the report be received.