Agenda

Governance & Audit Committee - Wednesday, 19 March 2025 7.30 pm

Venue: Council Chamber - Time Square, Market Street, Bracknell, RG12 1JD. View directions

Contact: Lizzie Rich  01344 352253

Media

Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for Absence

To receive apologies for absence and to note the attendance of any substitute members.

2.

Declarations of Interest

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

 

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

 

Any Member with an affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

3.

Minutes of previous meeting pdf icon PDF 104 KB

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the previous meeting of the Committee

4.

Urgent Items of Business

Any other items which, pursuant to Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972, the Chairman decides are urgent.

5.

Members' media protocol pdf icon PDF 63 KB

To consider the member's media protocol (proactive and reactive) for all Bracknell Forest Council members.

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6.

Internal Audit report pdf icon PDF 210 KB

To receive an update on progress on the Annual Internal Audit Plan.

7.

Annual Internal Audit Plan pdf icon PDF 77 KB

To set out the underlying principles applied in the Internal Audit planning process and seek the Governance and Audit Committee’s approval of the Internal Audit Plan for 2025/26.

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