Issue - meetings

          The Board considered a report of the Operational Director - Finance, which sought approval of the final 2022/23 Annual Governance Statement (AGS).

          The AGS provided a summary of the authority’s governance arrangements during 2022/23 and also provided an opinion on whether they were fit for purpose. It identified any issues with the Council’s governance arrangements and set out how such issues would be addressed.

The 2022/23 AGS was originally presented to the Board in July 2023. It was important that the AGS was up to date when the statement of accounts were approved. As such, the document had been reviewed and updated to reflect current progress and it was presented again for the Board to review.

Once approved, the AGS would be signed by the Council Leader and Chief Executive and published on the Council’s website.

          RESOLVED: That the Annual Governance Statement 2022/23 be approved.