Wednesday 11 December 2024 Audit Committee

Audit Committee

1. Apologies
2. Declarations of Interest
3. Minutes of Audit Committee Meeting held Wednesday 18 September 2024 (copy attached) 
4. Northern Ireland Audit Office Reports 
   4.1 NIAO Annual Audit Letter 2023-24 (report attached)
   4.2 NIAO Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 (report attached)
   4.3 s.95 Improvement Audit and Assessment – Final Audit and Assessment Report 2024-25 (report attached)
   4.4 Draft Report to those Charged with Governance 2023-24 (report attached) 
5. Audit Progress Report (Monitoring) (report attached)
6. Direct Award Contracts (report attached)
7. Audit Committee Effectiveness (report attached)
8. Correspondence
   8.1 NIAO Local Government Auditors Report 2022-23 (copy attached)
   8.2 NIAO The National Fraud Initiative in Northern Ireland 2024 (copy attached)
9. Matters for reporting to Partnership Panel
IN COMMITTEE (ITEMS 10-17 INCLUSIVE)
10. Internal Audit (Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council) Reports 
   10.1 Animal Welfare (report attached)  
11. Internal Audit (CavanaghKelly) Reports
   11.1 Enforcement, Development Control and Development Plan (report attached)
   11.2 Building Maintenance (report attached)
   11.3 Risk Management (report attached)
12. Prior Year Recommendations (report to follow)
13. Transformation Action Plan 
   13.1 Independent Advisor Final (report attached)
   13.2 Project Closure Report (report attached)
14. Absence Report (Quarter 2) (report attached) 
15. Corporate Risk Matrix and Register (report attached)
16.  Audit Risk and Governance resourcing paper (report attached)
17. Raising Concerns/Fraud (verbal) 
18. Any Other Relevant Business (notified in accordance with Standing Order 12(o))
19. Date of Next Meeting – Wednesday 12 March 2025