Audit Risk and Governance Autumn Seminar

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1 W 3rd October 2014 CPD Event Audit Risk and Governance Autumn Seminar CIPFA North West Audit, Risk and Governance Professional Development Group

2 Time Session title Speaker 9.00 Coffee and registration 9.20 Welcome and introduction 9.30 The Social Care Act impact of the new Act and implications for Internal Audit Andrew Burridge Policy and Programme Manager for Health, GM Integrated Support Team The Care Act represents the biggest reform of social care in 60 years, bringing together the existing legal framework and responding to the Dilnot report on social care funding. Andrew has been helping support a Northwest Care Act Task and Finish Group, led by the lead NW Director for the Care Act, Stuart Cowley (Wigan Council). Andrew will present the Care Act, the preparations being made in the Northwest and will explore the implications of the Care Act for local authorities and internal auditors Excellent Governance can we touch it? Stephen Mungavin Head of CIPFA Northern Ireland Those charged with ensuring good governance of public bodies are increasingly under pressure. Not only is there greater scrutiny of public bodies, there are also rising expectations to provide assurances that organisations are well governed and that the risk of failure is minimised. Pressures on public expenditure, rising public expectations added to the unique political interface of public bodies results in growing pressure to demonstrate excellent governance. But what does excellent governance look like? Can it be sensibly assessed and if so, what are the benefits for the organisation of doing so? In this session, Steve Mungavin, one of CIPFA s governance consultants, shares some of the prevailing governance issues, highlights the new IFAC/CIPFA Governance Framework and discusses how public bodies might strive for excellence using the Framework and CIPFA s new accreditation scheme. Steve is the Head of CIPFA in Northern Ireland and has over 30 years experience of working in and with public services through the UK and Ireland. Whilst working at CIPFA over the last 12 years, Steve has developed numerous initiatives aimed at improving governance in public bodies and in the third sector. This includes development and delivery of new governance training courses; practical support for Chairs, Governing Bodies and Audit Committees; developing guidance; conducting governance reviews; and troubleshooting for Governing Bodies. Steve has practical experience as a Board Member of a public body for five years and as Chair of an Audit Committee for two years Break

3 Time Session title Speaker CIPFA Fraud Code of Practice and the work of the Forensic Investigation Service Chris Clements Partner, CIPFA Forensic Investigation Service Chris is a partner in CIPFA s Forensic Investigation Service based in the North West. Chris will share experience of the Forensic Investigation Service role in CIPFA and will cover the new CIPFA Fraud Code of Practice Lunch Audit Commission NFI and what the future looks like Kevin Boon NFI IT Specialist Audit Commission This session will cover the history of NFI and then look forward to the future of NFI and what Local Authorities can do to make best use of the data matching facilities. The session will explore how the data can be used to facilitate smarter working and assist with investigations. Future use of NFI will be covered including flexible matching and use of Application Checker. Kevin spent the first 5 years of his working life as a visiting officer in the DHSS and the next 10 years as an auditor in the Department of Health and the Audit Commission. After becoming an IT auditor he started to develop smart audit techniques including a Housing Benefit Grant Claim audit tool used by external auditors nationally. He has been the Audit Commission s national IDEA and data champion since 2001 and joined the NFI team in Kevin s main areas of responsibility on the team are Security, Data Quality and Council Tax matching Action Fraud Mark Aldridge Fraud Evaluation and Liaison Officer Lancashire Constabulary This session will look at the aims and objectives of Action Fraud, providing some examples of Local Authority fraud cases and will also aim to give some guidance on what the Police expect to avoid cases not being taken up by the Police or the CPS. Mark originally qualified and worked as an Electrical and Electronics Engineer. He joined the Police in 1995 and has worked in the Central Division and HQ Division for all of his career, initially in uniform as a town centre bobby and then transferring into the CID after about 3½ years. Since then he has been a career detective working with CID, the Force Major Incident Team, and then transferring to become a Child Protection Officer for four years before moving to the Serious and Organised Crime Unit. He spent 4 years at SOCU and then a stint working on a joint Fraud and Financial Investigation with HMRC. He has been working as the Fraud Evaluation and Liaison Officer for the past 20 months. Mark has been a member of the Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team for over 20 years and was until recently deputy team leader for five years Break

4 15.00 Information Commissioner s Office (ICO) Data Protection Audits, Outcomes and Lessons Learnt John-Pierre Lamb Group Manager ICO Good Practice Local Authority Team The ICO's mission is to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals. John-Pierre is one of three Group Managers in the Good Practice Department who have responsibility for planning and delivering the ICO s audit and advisory visit programmes he currently manages the Local Government Team. He joined Good Practice in 2011 as an Audit Team Manager, having just returned from an 18 month secondment to the European Data Protection Supervisor in Brussels where he worked on drafting and implementing their enforcement strategy and on a programme of DP compliance visits to EU agencies. Prior to this John-Pierre was the ICO s FOI Enforcement Manager with responsibility for monitoring public authorities compliance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and for issuing Practice Recommendations against the section 45 and 46 Codes of Practice. Before joining the ICO in 2005, John-Pierre worked in IT management within the private sector Summary and close

5 Aims and objectives This Autumn Seminar will provide you with a range of views, practical advice, tips and guidance which can be used to enhance your working practices and to raise the value and reputation of internal Audit during continuing challenging and turbulent working times. The seminar will also provide advice on how to minimise fraud, from some of the leading, forward thinking practitioners in the public sector. Delegate Fees 60 + VAT CIPFA Students (Limited number of free places only) Who should attend? Whatever your current position or experience, you should not miss this opportunity to join your colleagues from across the region and expert practitioners in exploring how to address some of the key issues and emerging challenges. The event is aimed at those that operate in, or have responsibility for, the following areas: Internal Audit Risk Management Fraud Prevention and Investigation CIPFA Students In conjunction with CIPFA NW Student Group we have a limited number of free places for CIPFA students. BOOKINGS / ENQUIRIES Bookings and enquiries should be directed to: Jean Gleave at jgleave2@warrington.gov.uk Tel Applications will be dealt with strictly in the order they are received. Directions: gory_id=2