Decided: The Committee accepted the report and recommended that Council approve the self-assessment and well-being report 2025/26 for publication on the council website and for sharing with key partners, as set out in paragraph 2.42 of the statutory guidance (paragraph 7.2) (Option 1).
Decided: The Committee accepted the report. It considered the provisional revenue outturn for 2025/26, including an overall adverse variance of £1.4m, and scrutinised and challenged the key financial results and the pressures reported on portfolios. It recommended that Cabinet approve the budget virement set out in the report, as the Council's Constitution requires. It noted the use of specific reserves to support the in-year position and fund the adverse variance, and the need to consider the effect on reserves and future financial resilience.
Decided: The Committee accepted the report and used the information to provide scrutiny and challenge on the provisional outturn, significant variances, proposed slippage (projects delayed into a later year) and the adequacy of financial controls protecting council resources (Option 1).
Decided: The Committee scrutinised the treasury management activity in 2025/26. It did not provide comments before the report went to full Council (Option 2).
Decided: The Committee scrutinised the treasury management activity in the first quarter of 2026/27. Members noted that the council complied with its Treasury Management Strategy. No changes to the agreed treasury strategies or performance indicators were proposed.
AGREED that the report be accepted and reviewed the Forward Work Programme for the Corporate Governance and Resource Scrutiny Committee scheduled for 12th November, 2026.
Blaenau Gwent, Corporate Governance and Resources Scrutiny Committee,
AGREED to recommend to Council that the Statement of Accounts for Ceredigion County Council and Ceredigion Harbour Authority Annual Return for 2025/26 be approved as presented and that the Chair of the Committee would report the Committee’s recommendation to Council that afternoon.