Council tries to calm fears after damning report into finances

AMMANFORD Town Council has moved to address a damning report by Audit Wales into its finances over the past decade.

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The council has been criticised by Wales' Auditor General for “serious failures in governance and financial management” over a period of 10 years.

The report, published last month, was a follow-up audit report covering the years 2018/19 to 2023/24.

The audit claimed the council's failure to account for almost £800,000 collected from local taxpayers between 2016-17 and 2020-21 resulted in past officers and members failing to ensure proper standards of management and governance.

It also highlights that the council failed to submit accounts on time in 2019-2020 and 2020-2021, while records for 2021-2022 were discovered during the audit, after the auditor had initially not seen evidence of these records.