AGENDA - Scrutiny, Wednesday 14 July 2005 at 10.00 am in the Cary Room


1.         Minutes - to approve as a correct record and authorise the Chairman to sign the minutes of the meeting of the Group held on 16 June 2005.

2.         Urgent Business - brought forward at the discretion of the Chairman.

3.         Division of Agenda - to consider whether the discussion of any item of business is likely to lead to the disclosure of exempt information.

4.         Declarations of Interest - Members are invited to declare any personal or prejudicial interests, including the nature and extent of such interests, they may have in any items to be considered at this meeting.

5.        Matters (if any) referred to the Group under Part 4 (18) Rules of Procedure – Call-in of decisions where Members of Scrutiny have evidence which suggests that the Executive did not take the decision in accordance with the principles set out in Article 13 (Decision Making).

6.         Interim Audit Report 2004 / 2005: Presentation by Richard Bacon and Craig Sullivan from PriceWaterhouseCoopers

7.         Statement of Internal Control for South Hams District Council – to consider a report which provides Members with information to independently examine the draft Statement of Internal Control and the supporting evidence and to recommend approval of the Statement of Internal Control to Council;

8.         Risk Management Strategy – to consider a report on risk management which was also presented to the Executive on 30 June 2005 and to feedback any relevant comments to the Executive;

            Report presented to Executive on 30 June 2005

9.         Customer Services Unit: Update – to consider the second quarterly update report on the progress made in the formation and development of the Customer Service Team and the migration of services over into this new environment (report to follow);

10.       Feedback from Scrutiny Members on their Shadowing Roles;

11.       Agenda Items for Future Meetings of Scrutiny;

12.       Exclusion of Public and Press – to consider the following resolution to exclude the public and press:-

            “That in accordance with Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and press be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business as the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 13 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act is involved.” 

13.       Internal Audit – Summary of Activities and Findings for 2004 / 2005 – to consider an exempt report which summarises and informs Members of the principal activities of the Internal Audit section of Financial Services during 2004/05.

 

Members of the public may wish to note that the Council's meeting rooms

are accessible by wheelchairs and have a loop induction hearing system

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 N.B.    Legal and financial officers will not, as a general rule, be present throughout all meetings, but will be on standby if required.  Members are requested to advise the Member Support Service in advance of the meeting if they require any information of a legal or financial nature.

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 MEMBERS ARE REQUESTED TO SIGN THE ATTENDANCE REGISTER

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