Agenda item

Strategic Risk Management

Report of the Acting Executive Director, Resources.

 

(Note: The above report is not available to the public and press because it contains exempt information described in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person, including the authority holding that information).

Minutes:

13.1

The Corporate Risk Manager introduced a report and gave a presentation providing an assessment of the Council’s current Risk Management arrangements and the measures implemented to further strengthen and improve them and the current and emerging risks, their impact on service delivery and the controls in place to manage them.

 

 

13.2

The report and presentation covered the period from June 2016 to February 2017. The Corporate Risk Manager reported that the risk management arrangements remained at a green rating for this period. However, if certain issues were not resolved in the next quarter, the Corporate Risk Management Group would consider reducing the rating to amber. Since the report had been compiled, however, there had been some evidence that things were improving in this respect.

 

 

13.3

The Corporate Risk Manager and Acting Executive Director, Resources responded to questions from Members of the Committee on management responsibility for risks and deprivation of liberty.

 

 

13.4

Resolved: That the Committee:-

 

 

 

(a)

notes the current assessment of the Council’s Risk Management arrangements and endorses the measures being taken to strengthen those arrangements;

 

 

 

 

(b)

notes the improving trends in management of risks; and

 

 

 

 

(c)

notes the current and emerging risks and endorses the actions being taken to mitigate those risks.