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Internal Audit Activity Report 31 st May 2012 of course. The exception to this where a review gives an “inadequately controlled” assurance opinion when the full report will be made available to the committee to enable members to fully understand the reasons why this opinion has been given and the implications for the Authority. A summary of the audit opinions and recommendation descriptions at Appendix 3. Overall Opinion on Control Environment 2012/13 5. An audit opinion is provided as part of each Internal Audit report. It is derived from the work undertaken during the audit review and is intended to provide assurance about the internal controls in place in that system or particular Force / Authority activity. The Internal Audit work to date has covered a number of areas across the Force / Authority. The assurance provided by this work is as follows in Table 2: Assurance provided Q4 Q3 Q2 Q1 Year to Date Well Controlled 1 1 Controlled 1 1 Controlled, but needs improvement 7 7 Inadequately Controlled 0 0 Number of reviews reported 9 9 Table 2 6. A number of recommendations have been agreed as part of each review completed to date. However, no major areas of concern have been highlighted as a result of the Internal Audit reviews completed to the end of May 2012. In each case appropriate action and a timescale has been agreed with senior managers across the Force / Authority to implement the recommendations made. Progress in implementing agreed recommendations will be monitored and reported accordingly. As a result of the reviews completed recommendations for improvement have been agreed with management where necessary and is summarised in Table 3 below under the following categories. 3
Internal Audit Activity Report 31 st May 2012 Recommendations agreed Q4 Q3 Q2 Q1 Year to Date Major 0 0 0 0 0 Significant 7 7 Moderate 28 28 Low 11 11 Number of recommendations agreed 46 46 Number of reviews reported 9 9 Table 3 Recommendations in 2011/12 7. An analysis of recommendations made by Internal Audit is given in Table 4 (Recommendations made and accepted in 2011/12) and Table 5 (Recommendations implemented, in relation to 2011/12 where appropriate – i.e. followed up) below. Recommendations Major Significant Moderate Low Total Made 0 14 117 94 225 Accepted 0 14 114 93 221 Percentage Accepted N/A 100% 97% 99% 98% Table 4 Recommendations Major Significant Moderate Low Total Accepted 0 14 (3) 114 (12) 93 (14) 221 (29) Implemented 0 (2) (10) (8) (20) Percentage Implemented 0 67% 83% 57% 69% Table 5 8. The unimplemented significant recommendation in Table 5 above relates to issues regarding detained property within Walsall LPU. It was found that the number of items missing from its property stores has increased along with the number of items being booked out and not promptly returned. To address the issues identified by Internal Audit, LPU management have agreed to place an additional member of staff into the property store. 4
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