Date: 13 August 2026

Time: 14:00

Venue: MS Teams

Present—

•  Ed Pybus (Chair of Audit Sub-Committee)
• Judith Paterson (Audit Sub-Committee Member)
• Adam Bennett (Audit Sub-Committee Member)

In attendance—

• Stephen Herbert, Secretary, SCoSS; and
• Lisa Kinnear, Governance and Engagement Officer; SCoSS.

Ed Pybus welcomed the attendees to the third Governance Sub-Committee meeting of 2026.

No interests were declared.

The minutes of the May 2026 meeting of the Governance Sub-Committee were agreed.

The Sub-Committee considered and agreed the 2026-27 budget allocation letter which set out that the SCoSS Budget in 2026-27 will be £550K.

The Sub-Committee considered the finance update and forecast for 2026-27 and it was agreed that sufficient funding is currently available at this point. The Sub-Committee also considered the budgetary provision for 2027/28.

The Sub-Committee was provided with a governance update covering the External Expert Panel, Board recruitment, and the upcoming website procurement exercise.

The Sub-Committee considered the business plan update and agreed that a six-monthly progress update would be provided to the Governance Sub-Committee, Charter Sub-Committee and the Board.

The Sub-Committee considered the risk register and agreed to remove the risk relating to the closure of programme finance. The Sub-Committee also agreed amendments to the risk scoring and subsequently approved the risk register.

The Sub-Committee noted the update on freedom of information.

The Sub-Committee agreed to move the date of the next meeting to late October.

Meeting closed at 15:58