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Annual Governance Statement for 2025/26, Action Plan for 2026/27 & Local Code of Corporate Governance Report 2026/27

 

 

Meeting: 25/06/2026 - Audit and Governance Committee (Item 139)

139 Annual Governance Statement for 2025/26, Action Plan for 2026/27 & Local Code of Corporate Governance Report for 2026/27 pdf icon PDF 68 KB

Purpose:

This report provides the Audit and Governance Committee with an updated Annual Governance Statement for 2025/26 incorporating the Annual Action Plan for 2025/26, an Annual Governance Action plan for 2026/27 and the Local Code of Corporate Governance 2026/27.

 

Recommendations:

That the Audit and Governance Committee resolves to:

  1. Approve the 2025/26 Annual Governance Statement incorporating the Annual Action Plan for 2025/26 and the Action Plan 2026/27 for sign off by the Chief Executive Officer and the Leader of the Council.
  2. Review and adopt the latest version of the Local Code of Corporate Governance 2026/27 for sign off by the Chief Executive Officer and the Leader of the Council.
  3. Agree to receive updates on progress against the key actions in the Action Plan 2026/27 at future meetings.

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Cheryl Sloan, Executive Director, Workforce Strategy & Transformation, presented the item, the purpose of which was to provide the Audit and Governance Committee with an updated Annual Governance Statement for 2025/26 incorporating the Annual Action Plan for 2025/26, an Annual

Governance Action plan for 2026/27 and the Local Code of Corporate Governance 2026/27.

 

In her presentation the Executive Director, Workforce Strategy & Transformation, made the following points:

 

  • The Local Code of Corporate Governance set out the governance arrangements for the Council.
  • The Annual Governance Statement was a backward-looking document that looked at how the Council had complied with Local Code of Corporate Governance in the 2025/26 year.
  • The Annual Governance Action Plan was a forward-looking document embedded within the Annual Governance Statement and identified what improvements will be made to governance arrangements.
  • The Annual Governance Statement formed part of the Annual Accounts submission.

 

In the discussion the Committee made the following points:

 

  • An Independent Member queried if “people” should be included in the key areas of focus. Officers commented that this could be included, however there was a separate People Action Plan being worked on at present.

 

Councillor Sandra Simpson proposed that the Committee accept the recommendations in the report.

 

Councillor Joy Aitman seconded the proposal, this was put to the vote and agreed by the Committee.

 

That the Audit and Governance Committee resolved to:

1.    Approve the 2025/26 Annual Governance Statement incorporating the Annual Action Plan for 2025/26 and the Action Plan 2026/27 for sign off by the Chief Executive Officer and the Leader of the Council.

2.    Adopt the latest version of the Local Code of Corporate Governance 2026/27 for sign off by the Chief Executive Officer and the Leader of the Council.

3.    Agree to receive updates on progress against the key actions in the Action Plan 2026/27 at future meetings.

 

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