The Chair accepted the following item of urgent Part I business.
Redmond Report
The Strategic Director (CF) outlined the major recommendations contained in the recently published Redmond Report, an independent review on the quality of local authority financial reporting and external audit. Consultation on the review ran from 17 September 2019 to 20 December 2019, and consultees included as external audit firms, the PSAA (the procuring body for local authority external auditors) and individual councils.
The Strategic Director (CF) advised that she would be submitting a full report on the Redmond Report to the next meeting of the Audit Committee. She undertook to arrange for Audit Committee Members to be sent a link to the Report on the Government’s website.