Issue - meetings

To submit the report of the Chair of the Governance and Audit Committee.

DECISION

⁠TO ACCEPT THE REPORT AND NOTE THE INFORMATION

Mr Eifion Jones, Vice-chair of the Committee, was welcomed to the meeting to submit the committee's annual report for 2023/24 in the absence of the former Chair of the Committee for the period, Mrs Sharon Warnes.

He noted that it was a pleasure to submit the Chair's report, based on Welsh Government's statutory requirements, outlining how the Committee had considered the difficult factors the Council had faced over the period along with the Committee's observations on how the Council had responded firmly to those risks. He highlighted that the Committee had conducted its first Self-assessment in April 2024 and drew attention to the very satisfactory results of that self-assessment.

The Committee Members were thanked for their cooperation and their key contribution to the Committee's work. The officers who had been supporting the Committee’s work in a thorough and professional manner were also thanked. Councillor Ioan Thomas was welcomed as a new member of the Committee and Councillor Paul Rowlinson, former member of the Committee, was congratulated for his appointment as Cabinet Member for Finance.

Best wishes were expressed to Carys Edwards in her role as the Chair of the Committee for 2024/25 and to Rhys Parry as the Vice-chair of the Committee for 2024/25.

The members expressed their thanks for the report.

In response to an observation by Councillor Eryl Jones Williams that he was disappointed that the Committee has supported a risk to the Council with DoLS and that the Care Scrutiny Committee had been against this along the years, Mr Eifion Jones noted that he accepted the observation, but highlighted that the Committee's work was to make recommendations, and not to make decisions.

RESOLVED

⁠TO ACCEPT THE REPORT AND NOTE THE INFORMATION