Agendas, reports and minutes

A Special Meeting of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee will take place REMOTELY on Thursday, 28 January 2021 at 11.00am.

Please note a Technical Briefing on Accounts will take place at 9.30am.

Webcast Notice: This meeting will be filmed and broadcast over the Internet on the Highland Council website and will be archived and available for viewing for 12 months thereafter.

You are invited to attend the meeting and a note of the business to be considered is attached.

Yours faithfully

Stewart Fraser
Head of Corporate Governance 

Business

1. Apologies for Absence
Leisgeulan

2. Declarations of Interest
Foillseachaidhean Com-pàirt

Members are asked to consider whether they have an interest to declare in relation to any item on the agenda for this meeting. Any Member making a declaration of interest should indicate whether it is a financial or non-financial interest and include some information on the nature of the interest. Advice may be sought from Officers prior to the meeting taking place.

3. External Audit Reports    
Aithisgean Sgrùdaidh bhon Taobh A-muigh

There will follow External Audit Report from the Council’s External Auditors (Grant Thornton):-

a) Annual Report 2019/20 to Elected Members and the Controller of Audit 
b) Letter of Representation

4. Internal Audit Review
Ath-bhreithneachaidhean In-sgrùdaidh 

There is circulated Report No AS/1/21 dated 18 January 2021 by the Corporate Audit Manager on the Review of the recruitment process for Executive Chief Officer of Education & Learning.
The Committee is invited to consider the report along with an External Audit opinion provided as Appendix 1 to the report.