Joint Panel on Accountability and Governance
The Joint Panel on Accountability and Governance (JPAG) is responsible for issuing proper practices about the governance and accounts of smaller authorities. We sit as members to represent the sector alongside the Association of Drainage Authorities and the Society of Local Council Clerks, together with stakeholder partners representing the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the National Audit Office, and a representative of the external audit firms appointed to smaller authorities. We also provide the secretariat to the JPAG.
Members
- Derek Kemp, National Association of Local Councils (chair)
- Jennifer Bevan, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
- Annie Child, Smaller Authorities’ Audit Appointments
- Ja’Neen Day, Warwickshire and West Midlands Association of Local Councils
- Matthew Hemsley, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Sallyanne Jeffrey, Association of Drainage Authorities
- Andrew Kendrick, National Audit Office
- Paul Lambert, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Alan Mellor, Society of Local Council Clerks
- Mark Mulberry, Internal Audit Forum
- Carolyn Rossiter, Smaller Authorities’ Auditors Group
