Business Operations and Partnerships Department
Director of Business Operations & Partnerships: Louise Pringle
Council Headquarters, Eastwood Park, Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, G46 6UG
Phone: 0141 577 3000
website: www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk
Date: 12 January 2024
When calling please ask for: Linda Hutchison (Tel. No 0141 577 8388)
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TO: Councillor Andrew Morrison (Chair), Tony Buchanan (Vice-Chair), Provost Mary
Montague and Councillors Paul Edlin, Annette Ireland, David Macdonald and Gordon
Wallace.

AUDIT AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE
A meeting of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee will be held in the Council Chamber, Council Headquarters, Eastwood Park, Giffnock, on

Thursday, 18 January 2024 at 2.00pm.

The agenda of business is as listed below.
Yours faithfully
Louise Pringle
L PRINGLE
DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS & PARTNERSHIPS

AGENDA
1. Report apologies for absence.
2. Declarations of interest.

3. Chair’s Report.

4. Interim Treasury Management Report 2023/24 – Quarter 3 – Report by Head of
Accountancy (Chief Financial Officer)(copy attached, pages 3 – 20).

5. Managing Absence – 2022/23 Annual Report – Report by Director of Business
Operations and Partnerships (copy attached, pages 21 – 26).

6. Summary of Early Retirement/Redundancy Costs to 31 March 2023 – Report by
Director of Business Operations and Partnerships (copy attached, pages 27 –
30).

7. National External Audit Report – Adult Mental Health in Scotland – Report by
Clerk (copy attached, pages 31 – 38).

8. Public Sector Internal Audit Standards (PSIAS) Assessment – Report by Chief
Auditor (copy attached, pages 39 – 58).

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A recording of the meeting will also be available following the meeting on the Council’s
YouTube Channel

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You can read all papers/reports on Council webpage here -

www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/audit-and-scrutiny-committee-180124