Agenda

To receive apologies for inability to attend the meeting (if any).

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of this Committee held on *.

To remind Members of the need to record the existence and nature of any personal, disclosable pecuniary or other registrable interests in items on the agenda, in accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct.

Purpose: To consider the Forward Plan for the next 12 months.

To provide the annual report on matters relating to standards and conduct and to bring to the attention of Members a summary of complaints or other problems within West Berkshire. problems within West Berkshire.

To set out a risk-based plan of work for Internal Audit.

To provide an overview of the treasury management activity for financial year 2023/24 as at 31st March 2024.

To provide those charged with governance an overview of the external audit work programme for the 2023-24 audit year including Calue for Money work

To reflect change in service ownership from HR to Internal Audit, as well as to include reference to whistleblowing concerns that may be raised external to the Council

To set out the Annual Governance Statement (AGS) for the Council for 2023-24 for approval. The AGS summarises the key governance issues for the Council and the action plan to address these.

This report is an annual summary of the activities of the Governance Committee for the 2023-24 municipal year.

To highlight the corporate risks (as at the end of March 2024) that need to be considered by Corporate Board and Operations Board and to outline the actions that were being taken to mitigate those risks.

RECOMMENDATION: That members of the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items as it is likely that there would be disclosure of exempt information of the description contained in the paragraphs of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 specified in brackets in the heading of each item. Section 10 of Part 10 of the Constitution refers.

To highlight the corporate risks (as at the end of March 2024) that need to be considered by Corporate Board and Operations Board and to outline the actions that were being taken to mitigate those risks.