2026/27 Internal Audit Strategy and Annual Audit Plan
What it recommends
- “review and endorse the Council’s 2026/27 Internal Audit Strategy and Annual Audit Plan.”
What the meeting decided
The minutes record: Agreed. “RESOLVED to agree the Council’s 2026/27 Internal Audit Strategy and Annual Audit Plan. Reason 13.3 The Council’s 2026/27 Internal Audit Strategy and Annual Audit Plan set out how the Council will meet its statutory requirements for internal audit, as defined within the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015. </AI6> <AI7>” minutes ↗
In plain English
Recommended · This went to the meeting on Tue 21 Jul 2026. What was decided is in that meeting's minutes.
Cabinet is recommended to review and endorse the Council's 2026/27 Internal Audit Strategy and Annual Audit Plan. p5
The plan sets out how the Council will meet its statutory requirements for internal audit as defined within the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015. p6
The Internal Audit Plan for 2026/27 is a risk-based programme of work developed in consultation with departments, and comments from a workshop with Audit Committee members in January were fed into the planning process. p7
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- p5RECOMMENDATION: Cabinet is recommended to review and endorse the Council’s 2026/27 Internal Audit Strategy and Annual Audit Plan.
- p61. Background 1.1 The Council’s 2026/27 Internal Audit Strategy and Annual Audit Plan (Annex A and Appendix A) sets out how the Council will meet its statutory requirements for internal audit, as defined within the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015.
- p71.2 The Internal Audit Strategy details the priorities for delivering an effective internal audit and counter fraud service, together with details of the quality assurance and performance management arrangements for the coming year. The Internal Audit Plan for 2026/27 is a risk-based programme of work, as set out at Appendix A, developed in consultation with departments. A workshop was also held with members of the Audit Committee in January and comments made have been fed into the planning process.