Agenda

Audit Committee - Monday, 19th January, 2026 3.00 pm

Venue: Meeting Rooms 1 & 2, District Council Offices, 2013 Mill Lane, Wingerworth, Chesterfield S42 6NG.

Contact: Thomas Scott  Email: thomas.scott@ne-derbyshire.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for Absence

2.

Declarations of Interest

Members are requested to declare the existence and nature of any disclosable pecuniary interests and/or other interests, not already on their register of interests, in any item on the agenda and withdraw from the meeting at the appropriate time.

3.

Minutes of Last Meeting pdf icon PDF 210 KB

To approve as a correct record and the Chair to sign the Minutes of the Audit Committee held on 24 November 2025.

4.

Reports of the Head of the Internal Audit Consortium

4a

Internal Audit Progress Update pdf icon PDF 407 KB

Additional documents:

4b

Proposed External Review of Internal Audit pdf icon PDF 283 KB

5.

Reports of the Director of Finance & Resources and S151 Officer

5a

Treasury Management Refresher Training

5b

Treasury Management Strategies pdf icon PDF 407 KB

Additional documents:

5c

Proposed Accounting Policies pdf icon PDF 314 KB

Additional documents:

6.

Reports of the Assistant Director Governance & Monitoring Officer

6a

Work Programme 2025-27 pdf icon PDF 394 KB

Additional documents:

7.

Urgent Matters

To consider any other matter which the Chair of the Committee is of the opinion should be considered as a matter of urgency.

8.

Exclusion of Public

The Chair to move:-

 

That the public be excluded from the meeting during the discussion of the following item of business to avoid the disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 & 5, Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, (as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006).  [The category of exempt information is stated after each item]. 

9.

Reports of the Managing Director

9a

Risk Management Update

10.

Date of Next Meeting

The next meeting of the Audit Committee is scheduled to take place on 23 February 2026 at 3.00 pm.