Meeting documents

To consider this report.

The Committee considered this report, introduced by the Council’s Risk Manager, that provided details of the latest position of each of the 11 identified strategic risks to the Council achieving its objectives.

There was a discussion of the report, particularly Appendix A the Strategic Risk Report, with the Risk Manager explaining the information in the register including the rating of the risks and the actions being taken to mitigate each. It was noted that ORG0043 ‘maintain a sustainable budget’ remained the most critical risk to the Council.

Members heard there would be at some point during the next quarter a review of the Council’s strategic risks undertaken by the Council’s Senior Leadership Team. It was noted that further work was being completed ahead of 1 April 2019 to ensure that any new strategic risks were identified and developed.  Attention was directed to Appendix B which outlined the current strategic risks mapped to the Business Plan.

Members noted a heatmap which showed the latest distribution of the 11 identified risks and any changes since the last update report were indicated with a directional arrow. There was a brief discussion of the SWAP Partial Audit Tracker Report, attached as Appendix C to the report and set out in a similar way to the risk register. This provided details of all internal audit reports with a level 1 or 2 recommendation being tracked using JCAD and a number of follow-up audits were in progress.

The Committee welcomed the report and the determination of Officers, who were effectively marshalled by the Risk Manager, to ensure that focus was retained to ensure risks were robustly managed and monitored and so ensure the Council objectives were achieved.

In response to a question the Risk Manager noted that the overall concept of and adherence to appropriate risk management, though much improved, was not fully embedded across the Council. This led on to a brief discussion about the resilience of risk management within the Council and the Committee agreed to recommend that the Cabinet consider ensuring greater resilience of the risk management function of the Council.

The report was accepted.

The Committee considered this report, introduced by the Council’s Risk Manager, that provided details of the latest position of each of the 11 identified strategic risks to the Council achieving its objectives.

There was a discussion of the report, particularly Appendix A the Strategic Risk Report, with the Risk Manager explaining the information in the register including the rating of the risks and the actions being taken to mitigate each. It was noted that ORG0043 ‘maintain a sustainable budget’ remained the most critical risk to the Council.

Members heard there would be at some point during the next quarter a review of the Council’s strategic risks undertaken by the Council’s Senior Leadership Team. It was noted that further work was being completed ahead of 1 April 2019 to ensure that any new strategic risks were identified and developed.  Attention was directed to Appendix B which outlined the current strategic risks mapped to the Business Plan.

Members noted a heatmap which showed the latest distribution of the 11 identified risks and any changes since the last update report were indicated with a directional arrow. There was a brief discussion of the SWAP Partial Audit Tracker Report, attached as Appendix C to the report and set out in a similar way to the risk register. This provided details of all internal audit reports with a level 1 or 2 recommendation being tracked using JCAD and a number of follow-up audits were in progress.

The Committee welcomed the report and the determination of Officers, who were effectively marshalled by the Risk Manager, to ensure that focus was retained to ensure risks were robustly managed and monitored and so ensure the Council objectives were achieved.

In response to a question the Risk Manager noted that the overall concept of and adherence to appropriate risk management, though much improved, was not fully embedded across the Council. This led on to a brief discussion about the resilience of risk management within the Council and the Committee agreed to recommend that the Cabinet consider ensuring greater resilience of the risk management function of the Council.

The report was accepted.