At its meeting on 29 March 2007, the Committee considered progress on the 2006/07 Audit. A number of programmes were at that stage still in progress. Audit work has now been finalised with the completion of work on “Fire Grant and Other Statistics”, “Purchasing and Procurement”, “Computer Services” and “Corporate Governance / Review of SIC”. In addition, work reviewing previous years’ recommendations has also been finalised.
The Fire Authority’s Internal Auditor has produced the Annual Summary Audit Report, attached marked 5, which covers all of the work carried out in the year. Graham Tart, Head of Audit and Consultancy Services at Shropshire County Council and Lesley Chapman, Senior Auditor (Systems) will present this report. They will also make a short presentation on the processes involved in setting the internal audit programme. This will give Members the opportunity to discuss the matters they will need to consider later in the year, when the 2008/09 to 2011/12 Programme comes to the Committee.
