Find information on:
- managing risk,
- the internal audit and counter fraud service, and
- insurance.
You can find information about our statement of accounts.
Managing Financial Risk
The Council takes a proactive approach towards managing risk which helps us make best use of our resources.
We have a statutory responsibility to examine, evaluate and monitor how we use our resources, including finances, and this work is undertaken with the support of Internal Auditors.
The Internal Auditors provide advice and guidance on developing robust measures to monitor and control risk, help identify improvements, and to ensure compliance with rules and regulations. They also help deal with the prevention, detection and investigation of suspected fraud or financial impropriety.
Internal Audit and Counter Fraud Service
The Internal Audit team provides risk based and objective assurance, advice and insight. More information on Internal audit.
The Investigation Team performs a range of proactive and reactive work to prevent and detect fraud. They support managers to develop and maintain a culture in which fraud, bribery and corruption are understood across the organisation as unacceptable, with fraudsters brought to account quickly and efficiently, and losses recovered. More information on Fraud.
Insurance
All the Council's physical assets - such as buildings, vehicles and machinery - are insured, and we also have liability insurances to cover against financial loss due to liabilities that may arise for damage or injury caused by the Council, its employees or other people acting on its behalf, if the Council is found to be at fault.
Our Insurance section co-ordinates the handling of all insurance claims made by or against the Council. If you have a general query about Council insurance or want to make a claim please contact us.
Read more information on making a claim against the Council.
All claims are assessed individually and fairly, and where claims are legitimate we aim to settle as quickly as possible. However, there is no automatic right to compensation - you will need to prove that the Council has been at fault in law.
