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 29 July 2025.

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.

Purpose: To update the Committee on the status of the Internal Audit work as at the end of Quarter One 2025/26

Purpose: To highlight the corporate risks that need to be considered by the Governance Committee and to outline the actions that were taken to mitigate those risks.

The Strategic Risk Register Q4 2024/25 will be to follow.

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.

(Exempt under paragraphs 3 and 5)