The Committee is asked to note any apologies for absence and substitutions received from Members.

To confirm and sign as a correct record, the minutes of the last meeting of the Committee, held on Thursday, 27 March 2025.

Councillors are invited to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests, Other Registerable Interests or Non-Registerable Interests, and the nature of it, in relation to any item on the agenda.

Subject to providing two working days’ notice, a Member of the Committee may ask the Chairman of the Committee a question on any matter in relation to which the Council has powers or duties which affect the Tendring District and which falls within the terms of reference of the Committee.

To provide a periodic report on the Internal Audit function for the period March 2025 – May 2025 and the Internal Audit Manager Report for 2024/25 as required by the professional standards.

To present to the Committee the progress on outstanding actions identified by the Committee along with general updates on other issues that fall within the responsibilities of the Committee.

The Committee is provided with a proposed new combined Corporate and Housing Complaints Policy for the Council, following a review of the current separate policies and assessment of the requirements of the parallel Housing Ombudsman’s Complaint Handling Code and the Local Government and Social Care Complaint Handling Code.  While both codes have many areas of common expectations it is worth remembering that the Housing Ombudsman’s Code has a statutory footing which means that social housing landlords (such as this Council in respect of its housing stock) are obliged by law to follow its requirements.

The Committee is asked to consider passing the following resolution:

“That under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of Agenda Item 9 on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A, as amended, of the Act.”

To confirm and sign as a correct record, the exempt minute of the last meeting of the Sub-Committee, held on Thursday, 27 March 2025.