The attached documents have been submitted to the external auditors and in accordance with the law we hereby publish the notice of public rights and publication of unaudited annual governance and accountability return.
Please refer any queries to the clerk.
Audit Papers for public presentation – website and noticeboards – June 2022
Please note that council answered ‘no’ to question 2 of the annual governance statement. This is due to the internal auditors answer ‘no’ to question c on the internal auditors report. This is due to banking arrangements. At the moment the council reviews and approves payment of accounts at each meeting and the clerk/RFO then makes the payments. Bank statements are reconciled and reviewed at each meeting. Once councillor regularly reviews the online bank account to ensure that payments have been made in line with those agreed at meetings.
Both the clerk and the internal auditor felt that this was inadequate as the clerk has sole access to set up and authorise bank payments. Council have now agreed to authorise at least 2 councillors to be set up as authorisers of payments from the bank so that the clerk will no longer be able to make payments without them being checked and authorised by at least one councillor. This will be signed off and enacted at the July 2022 meeting of council.