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Statement of the Council and Chief Executive’s Responsibilities<br />
The Council's Royal Charter requires the Council<br />
to prepare a statement of accounts for each<br />
financial period in the form and on the basis<br />
determined by the Secretary of State for Digital,<br />
Culture, Media and Sport, with the consent of HM<br />
Treasury.<br />
The financial statements are prepared on an<br />
accruals basis to show a true and fair view of the<br />
Council and Group's state of affairs at the period<br />
end, and of its income and expenditure and cash<br />
flows for the financial period.<br />
In preparing the financial statements the Council<br />
is required to:<br />
• Observe the accounts direction issued by the<br />
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media<br />
and Sport, including the relevant accounting<br />
and disclosure requirements, and apply<br />
suitable accounting policies on a consistent<br />
basis<br />
• Make judgements and estimates on a<br />
reasonable basis<br />
• State whether applicable accounting<br />
standards have been followed, and disclose<br />
and explain any material departures in the<br />
financial statements; and<br />
• Prepare the financial statements on the going<br />
concern basis, unless it is inappropriate to<br />
presume that the Council will continue in<br />
operation.<br />
The Accounting Officer for the Department for<br />
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has designated<br />
the Chief Executive of The English Sports Council<br />
as the Accounting Officer for the Council. Her<br />
relevant responsibilities as Accounting Officer,<br />
including her responsibility for the propriety and<br />
regularity of the public finances for which she is<br />
answerable and for the keeping of proper records,<br />
are set out in “Managing Public Money”, issued by<br />
HM Treasury.<br />
The Accounting Officer of The English Sports<br />
Council is responsible for preparing financial<br />
statements that give a true and fair view, and for<br />
making available to the auditors all relevant<br />
information for their purposes.<br />
So far as the Accounting Officer is aware there is<br />
no relevant audit information of which The English<br />
Sports Council’s auditors are unaware. Further,<br />
the Accounting Officer has taken all the steps she<br />
ought to have taken to make herself aware of any<br />
relevant audit information and to establish that<br />
The English Sports Council’s auditors are aware<br />
of that information.<br />
The Accounting Officer confirms that the annual<br />
report and accounts as a whole is fair, balanced<br />
and understandable and takes personal<br />
responsibility for the annual report and accounts<br />
and the judgments required for determining that it<br />
is fair, balanced and understandable.<br />
Jennie Price CBE<br />
Chief Executive and Accounting Officer<br />
The English Sports Council<br />
21 June 20<strong>18</strong><br />
Nick Bitel<br />
Chair<br />
The English Sports Council<br />
21 June 20<strong>18</strong><br />
The English Sports Council Grant-in-Aid Consolidated Accounts for the year ended 31 March 20<strong>18</strong> 59
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