Our approach to the publication of Board minutes
The Audit Commission's corporate governance framework reserves the approval of the minutes of Board meetings to the Board alone. At each Board meeting, Commissioners are asked to approve the minutes of the previous meeting as a correct record. Following their approval, the minutes are reviewed and prepared for publication.
During the review period that follows the Board's approval of the minutes, the Commission will consider whether any information should be withheld. Where this is the case, the exemption will be clearly indicated and explained in the published version of the minutes, and will be in accordance with one or more of the exemptions defined by the Freedom of Information Act. An explanation of exemptions that appear in board minutes (PDF, 16kb) is available.
To help ensure transparency and accountability, the Audit Commission will publish only the actual Board minutes, and not a summary.
The Commission aims to publish the minutes within ten working days of the meeting at which they were approved. This timetable means that the Commission can manage its resources whilst disclosing the optimum amount of information on a regular basis. Previous Board agenda and sets of Board minutes, and the schedule of forthcoming meetings can be found below.
Forthcoming Board meetings
- Thursday 27 October 2011
- Thursday 8 December 2011