Agenda item

10.1

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.

10.2

The report and presentation covered the period from January to May 2018. The Corporate Risk Manager, Director of Finance, Director of Legal and Governance and Executive Director, Resources responded to questions from Members of the Committee in relation to the City Council’s Budget Position, viability of schools, Universal Credit, Information Technology and Special Educational Needs Learners.

10.3

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;

(c)

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

(d)

requests that the Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee gives consideration to the inclusion of an item on the roll out of Universal Credit in its work programme early in 2019.

(At this point in the proceedings, the meeting was reopened to the public and press.)