What is the Assurance Service?
The Assurance Service is a university-wide assurance function, working with areas of 1st and 2nd line compliance expertise from across the University to support the University community to effectively and efficiently manage its compliance obligations, share good practice and support effective implementation of internal controls, providing assurance to the University’s executive and the governing body. Together with Internal Audit, the Assurance Service forms part of the Governance, Assurance & Risk Group.
- See our Compliance FAQs
- Find out who to contact via our Compliance Hub Who’s Who
- Assess yourself against the Compliance & Assurance Framework: our institutional macro-level structure for approaching compliance and assurance work. Consider have you got all of this in place? Is it operating effectively?
Compliance Hub
Visit our Compliance Hub and discover:
- A 'Who's Who' of compliance at the University.
- Compliance FAQs
- Templates to support implementation of the Compliance & Assurance Framework, using best practice from across the institution (and externally).
Compliance & Assurance Framework
Developed to improve consistency in the management of compliance across different areas, the Compliance & Assurance Framework provides a macro-level structure for approaching compliance institution-wide.
Five key pillars underpin the Framework and support compliance leads to review existing compliance management by asking: Have we got all of this in place? Is it operating effectively? ​