The scope of work for an external investigation into Liverpool Council at the behest of its own auditors has been finalised.
Contracts are being completed for an outside body to lead a scope into historic practices at the local authority that led to arrests two years ago and is currently preventing auditors Grant Thornton signing off on the council’s accounts. Grant Thornton said it cannot complete the local authority’s books for 2019/20 until an investigation had taken place around whether issues that have dogged the authority were limited to “a particular area in the council or whether the issues are more pervasive.”
It had been expected that the identity of the external body leading the organisation would be confirmed in March but a Liverpool Council spokesperson said the formal process is to be completed imminently. The spokesperson said: “The contract is being formalised in the next few days.
