Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Governance and Audit Committee
28 Jul 2026 - 18:00 to 21:00
Scheduled
  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests

Documents

Agenda

Part A
1 Welcome and Announcements
The Chairman will welcome members of the public and Councillors and remind everyone to use microphones at all times when they are speaking. The Chairman will also explain action in the event of an emergency, mobile phones switched to silent, audio-recording of the meeting. Councillors who are members of the committee will introduce themselves.
2 Substitutions
Councillors will be asked to say if they are attending on behalf of a Committee member who is absent.
3 Urgent Items
The Chair will announce if there is any item not on the published agenda which will be considered because it is urgent and will explain the reason for the urgency.
5 Declarations of Interest

Councillors will be asked to say if there are any items on the agenda about which they have a disclosable pecuniary interest which would prevent them from participating in any discussion of the item or participating in any vote upon the item, or any other registerable interest or non-registerable interest.

 

4 Minutes of Previous Meeting
The Councillors will be invited to confirm that the minutes of the meeting held on 24 June 2026, including those contained in Part B of the agenda, are a correct record.
6 Have Your Say! (Hybrid Council meetings)

Members of the public may make representations to the meeting.  This can be made either in person at the meeting or by joining the meeting remotely and addressing the Committee via Zoom. Each representation may be no longer than three minutes.  Members of the public wishing to address the Committee must register their wish to address the meeting by e-mailing democratic.services@colchester.gov.uk by 12.00 noon on the working day before the meeting date.  In addition, a written copy of the representation will need to be supplied.

7 Core

The Committee will consider a report which requests that it review the Council’s updated and new Data Protection policies. These are the key policies which set out the standards of conduct and integrity that the Council expects of councillors, staff, partners, suppliers and customers when conducting Council business, and handling personal data.

The Committee will consider a report which meets the requirements of regulations issued under the Local Government Act 2003 to produce an Annual Treasury Management review of activities and the actual prudential and treasury indicators for 2025/26. This report meets the requirements of both the CIPFA Code of Practice on Treasury Management, (the Code), and the CIPFA Prudential Code for Capital Finance in Local Authorities, (the Prudential Code). 

The Committee will consider a report which sets out in detail the financial performance of General Fund Revenue and Capital and the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Outturn for the Financial Year 2025/26.

 

The Committee will consider a report outlining the path towards rebuilding external audit assurance.
Reports to Follow

The Committee will consider a report which provides members with an overview of the Council’s risk management activity undertaken during the financial year from 01 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.

 

The Committee will consider the annual Head of Internal Audit report from the Council’s Internal Audit supplier, TIAA ltd, for the year 01 April 2025 to 31 March 2026, set out at appendix 1.

 

The Committee will consider a report which sets out its work programme for the current municipal year. 
9 Exclusion of the Public (not Scrutiny or Executive)
In accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 to exclude the public, including the press, from the meeting so that any items containing exempt information (for example confidential personal, financial or legal advice), in Part B of this agenda (printed on yellow paper) can be decided. (Exempt information is defined in Section 100I and Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972).
Part B
Confidential appendices C and D for item 7(v) on the agenda. 
  1. Item 7(v) - Confidential Appendix C - FFF and Digital Project Risks 23 06 26
    • This report is not for publication by virtue of paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (financial / business affairs of a particular person, including the authority holding information).
  2. Item 7(v) - Confidential Appendix D - Capital Programme Key Risks @ 23 June 26
    • This report is not for publication by virtue of paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (financial / business affairs of a particular person, including the authority holding information).
Part B draft minute - 24-06-2026
  • This report is not for publication by virtue of paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (financial / business affairs of a particular person, including the authority holding information).

Additional Meeting Documents

  1. pdf Supplementary Agenda - Item 7(iv) - Governance and Audit Report Committee -Build Back Audit Assurance Update (147Kb)
  2. Item 7(iv) - Appendix 1 - Rebuilding assurance update Colchester City Council
    • This report is not for publication by virtue of paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (financial / business affairs of a particular person, including the authority holding information).

Attendance

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Apologies
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Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
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Visitors

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