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: 29 April 2025
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.

MEETING OF AUDIT AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE
A meeting of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee will be held in the Council Chamber,
Council Headquarters, Eastwood Park, Giffnock, G46 6UG on

Thursday, 8 May 2025 at 2.00pm.

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

AGENDA
1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
2. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
Members are requested to give notice of any declarations of interest in respect of items of business on the Agenda.

3. CHAIR’S REPORT

4. CONSULTANCY EXPENDITURE
Report by Clerk (copy attached, pages 3 - 6).

5. NATIONAL EXTERNAL AUDIT REPORT – 2023/24 AUDIT OF ABERDEEN CITY COUNCIL – COUNCIL TAX REFUNDS – A SIGNIFICANT FRAUD
Report by Clerk (copy attached, pages 7 - 14).

6. NATIONAL EXTERNAL AUDIT REPORT - ALCOHOL AND DRUG SERVICES
Report by Clerk (copy attached, pages 15 - 20).

7. INTERNAL AUDIT PLAN 2023/24 – IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS – JANUARY TO MARCH 2025 (QUARTER 4)
Report by Chief Auditor (copy attached, pages 21 - 36).

8. AUDIT AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE 2024/25 AND 2025/26 WORK PLANS
Report by Clerk (copy attached, pages 37 - 50).

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

www.youtube.com/user/eastrenfrewshire/videos

This document can be explained to you in other languages and can be provided
in alternative formats such as large print and Braille. For further information,
please contact Customer First on 0141 577 3001 or email

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You can read Reports/Papers on Council webpage here -

www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/audit-and-scrutiny-committee-080525