The 2007 Conference for Heads of Internal Audit & Risk Improvement
Managers (22-24 January 2007)
"Agents for Change - Where Next?"
Below is the programme with links to the available presentations from this year's conference that was held at the De Vere Grand Harbour hotel in Southampton on 22-24 January 2007. This has been an annual event for government Heads of Internal Auditors for a number of years, but this is the second year that it has been organised as a joint event for HIA's and departmental risk improvement managers and attracted over a hundred delegates from all over the country and also as far away as Japan.
More presentations to follow - we are awaiting permission to publish. Please note that all the documents are subject to copyright.
Monday 22 January
Welcome, domestic notices and introduction to the conference
Chris Butler, Assurance Control and Risk Team and Head of Internal Audit, HM Treasury
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: "How can Internal Auditors make a Chief Executive happy?"
Richard Wilson, Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Revision of the Government Internal Audit Standards
A reminder of the discussions that took place on this theme at last year's conference
Tim Hurdle, Head of Internal Audit, Home Office
887KB
Revision of the Government Internal Audit Standards
Facilitated by Toby Rhodes of the Wizards Network1220KB
Tuesday 23 January
Introductory remarks from the Day Chair, Jon Whitfield, Head of Internal Audit and Risk Improvement Manager, Department of Trade and Industry
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: A Permanent Secretary's view of the way forward with embedding and exploiting risk management
Sir Brian Bender, Permanent Secretary at DTI and formerly Chair of the Permanent Secretaries Management Group sub group on risk50KB
Business continuity - a case study of the Police National Computer showing how close disaster can really come.
Phillip Webb, Chief Executive, Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO)1654KB
Understanding emergency planning - and relating it to corporate risk management
Becky Kirby, Civil Contingencies Secretariat
The implications of the Capability Reviews for the risk, control and governance agenda
Rob Webster, Prime Minister's Delivery Unit
A British Standard on Risk Management - why, what and when.
Nicki Dennis, Head of Market Development, British Standard Institute123KB
Establishing risk management in public services: Helen England will share her experience of implementing risk management in local government, comparing and contrasting this with her previous experience.
Helen England, South Kesteven District Council
Agents for Change: Managing Fraud Risks in Government
Richard Kusnierz & Alan Livesey, IDM D.A.T.A Solutions Ltd 184KB
Risk management in a partnership environment.
Stephen Treece, Head of Risk Management, UK Identity and Passport Service
Workshop: What support does the risk agenda need from the centre during 2007?
Facilitated by Winston Kobylka, National School of Government
Workshop on Governance reporting: feedback on the quality of corporate governance reporting for 2005/6 and discussion about how to improve
Gordon Adam, HM Treasury125KB
Why we are assets not overheads for our organisations
Mary Hardy, Head of Internal Audit, Transport for London1783KB
Understanding the DNA of high reliability organisations - an evidence based study which will help you to help your organisation towards high reliability
Professor David Tranfield, Cranfield University170KB
Wednesday 24 January
Introductory remarks from the Day Chair - Chris Butler, Assurance Control and Risk Team and Head of Internal Audit, HM Treasury
Developing an approach to Integrated Assurance
Helen Morris, Head of Internal Audit, Health Protection Agency215KB
Integrated Assurance - Practical Case Studies
Paul Haley, Director of Strategic Operations, BHBi Consultancy Limited5627KB
Internal Audit and Fraud - the reality not the theory!
Bill Mitchell, Head of Internal Audit, Imperial War Museum
Trevor Birchall, Home Office639KB
"Internal control isn't important - managing risk is." Alec Richmond, IIA President 392KB
