Issue - meetings

To receive the Internal Audit Activity Report.

The Principal Auditor  presented Internal Audit Activity Report which updated Members on the progress made against the 2024/25 Internal Audit Plan and the recent work of Internal Audit.

In relation to the work undertaken by Internal Audit between 1 January 2025 and 31 March 2025 and the progress on previous reports issued, six reports had been issued: one red, one amber and four yellow reports.  Follow up audits would take place at the appropriate time.  Where follow up audits had taken place, gradings had improved. 

The 2024/25 Plan had approved 46 audits.  Eight audits were currently in progress, eighteen had been completed and nineteen audits had been deferred. 

Commercial contracts with Academies continued to progress.

The report was for noting.