Agenda and decisions

To receive any apologies for absence.

To elect a Chair for 2026/27.

Nigel Rudd was elected as Chair of the Sub-committee for 2026/27.

To elect a Vice-Chair for 2026/27.

It was resolved to postpone the appointment until the next meeting.

To receive any declaration of Personal Interest.

To note any items that are a matter of urgency in the view of the Chair for consideration.

The Chair shall propose that the minutes of the previous meeting held on 9th of December, 2025 be signed as a true record.

Mark Watkins, Monitoring Officer to present.

Mark Watkins, Monitoring Officer and Dewi Morgan, Head of Finance (CJC’s Statutory Finance Officer) to present the report.

·       The Work Programme for 2026/27 was approved.

·       It was agreed that the Work Programme should be dealt with as a live document and reviewed in every general meeting, with further items to be added when they were within the remit of the Sub-committee's Terms of Reference or when they were referred by the Corporate Joint Committee.

·       It was noted that the agenda was framed around assurance, adequacy of controls, effectiveness of arrangements, statutory compliance and, where appropriate, recommendations to the Corporate Joint Committee.

Dewi Morgan, Head of Finance (CJC’s Statutory Finance Officer) to present the report.

The content of the draft Risk Management Strategy was considered and comments were made. 

Dewi A. Morgan, Head of Finance (CJC’s Statutory Finance Officer) and Delyth Jones-Thomas, Investment Manager to present the report.

To accept the report for 2025/26.

Alwen Williams, Chief Executive Officer to present the report.

Consideration was given to the draft Compliments, Comments and Complaints Policy, recommending its adoption by the Corporate Joint Committee.

Dewi A. Morgan, Head of Finance (CJC’s Statutory Finance Officer) and Sian Pugh, Assistant Head of Finance to present the report.

The information and the decisions sought were considered.

Dewi A. Morgan, Head of Finance (CJC’s Statutory Finance Officer) and Sian Pugh, Assistant Head of Finance to present the report.

The External Audit Plan 2026 for the Corporate Joint Committee was noted and comments were made.