Agenda item

Strategic Risk Register and Strategic Assurance Map

[To keep the Committee aware of the key risks the Council faces, and how it can gain assurance that these risks are being mitigated]

Minutes:

Narinder Phagura, Strategic Risk Manager outlined the salient points of the report on the key risks the Council faced and how it could gain assurance that the risks are being mitigated.  In doing so the Strategic Risk Manager also drew attention to information the Committee had requested at its last meeting relating to strategic risk 17- employee management. That report updated the Committee on the progress made by the Council in this area and the further actions required to manage the risk and the corporate performance indicator in respect of the number of appraisals completed.

 

During the ensuing discussion the Chair commented that he was pleased that there was currently only one strategic risk that was rated red.

 

Mike Ager, Independent Member asked whether the Council’s Strategic Executive Board would be considering the upcoming risks associated with ‘Brexit’. The Strategic Risk Manager confirmed that an exercise was being undertaken to consider the implications. An update would be presented to the next meeting of the Committee.

 

Neil Rogerson, Resilience Manager was also in attendance for this item and he gave a brief overview in respect of the strategic risk 8 - business continuity management which the Committee had requested at the last meeting.

 

At the end of the discussion on the report it was agreed that an update report be submitted to the next meeting on strategic risk 2 - skills for work.

 

Resolved:

  1. That the strategic risk register be noted.

 

  1. That the reduction in the assessment of risk 1-looked after children from red to amber as a result the progress made in 2015-16 be noted.

 

  1. That the closure of risk 19 a in respect of the Devolution Deal, following the consent given by the Council on second of March 2016 noted.

 

  1. That the change in target date for the reduction of risk 17-employee management (from July to September 2016) and the reasons for this be noted.

 

  1. That the main sources of assurance available to the Council against the strategic risks be noted.

 

6.     That an update report on the strategic risk 2- skills for work be submitted to the next meeting and the Director for Education be invited to attend the meeting for that update report.

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