Issue - meetings

Report No: CAB/FH/17/050

Portfolio Holder: Stephen Edwards            Lead Officer: Rachael Mann

Chairman of Committee: Louis Busuttil

RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL: (20 December 2017)

That, the West Suffolk Local Code of Corporate Governance, attached as Appendix A to Report No: PAS/FH/17/025, be approved.

(Report No: CAB/FH/17/050)

Councillor Stephen Edwards, Portfolio Holder for Resources and Performance, presented this report which sought approval for the West Suffolk Local Code of Corporate Governance.

In 2016, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA/Solace) updated their guidance, which strongly advocated the production of local Codes of Corporate Governance by local authorities so that they could review and account for their own individual arrangements to effectively discharge their functions and demonstrate their own compliance with good practice.

In light of this, Forest Heath District and St Edmundsbury Borough Councils (the West Suffolk Councils) had taken the opportunity to review their Code which was last produced jointly in 2013.

It was proposed, duly seconded and with the vote being unanimous, it was

RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL: (20 December 2017)

That, the West Suffolk Local Code of Corporate Governance, attached as Appendix A to Report No: PAS/FH/17/025, be approved.